We have implemented two ways to reveal the
actual names present in an overlapping stack, when viewing a PDF
file on a computer.
First, hovering over the stacked names should pop up a tooltip
with the authors listed in their original order, as shown in Figure 1.
This feature works on many desktop PDF viewers (e.g., Acrobat,
Evince, Firefox, VSCode), but notably not Chrome, Edge, Safari,
or MacOS Preview. It also does not work on mobile devices we
tested (probably because they lack a natural notion of “hovering”).
All it’s done is force you to read a tooltip. Which is an awful idea. The tooltips still create a first-author situation, so now your forced to screw around with a tooltip for…. Nothing.
I think the point is to recognise a paper by its author blob so you don’t end up needing the tooltip that much (they talk about it in the paper)
I’m not really convinced that it’s worth it, but they did think it through.
Not only is this paper real: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01393.pdf
But they actually made it practical:
That doesn’t sound very practical at all.
All it’s done is force you to read a tooltip. Which is an awful idea. The tooltips still create a first-author situation, so now your forced to screw around with a tooltip for…. Nothing.
I mean, relatively practical. Just the fact that they actually made an effort. It’s not much different from having it in a footnote
Easy fix (for html). Just embed js to randomly shuffle the order of the authors every time you hover or something.
I think the point is to recognise a paper by its author blob so you don’t end up needing the tooltip that much (they talk about it in the paper) I’m not really convinced that it’s worth it, but they did think it through.
Hmm… it’s not working for me in either Firefox or Okular.
And the authors are father and son!