Enlarge image on hover

Components

This would affect the feed, your blogs, comments and would adjust the capabilities steemit has surrounding displaying images.

Proposal

I propose adding the ability to enlarge an image on hover to the feed of steemit.com, this could also be added to any other page which includes a post preview where an image could be displayed. This means that when a user is going through the feed they would be able to hover over an image for say 1 or 2 seconds and an enlarged image would appear. When the user moves away from the image the enlarged image would disappear.

Note: There may be issues with this on mobile, therefore an enlarge icon could be added to provide similar preview behavior.

Mockups / Examples

Benefits

The main benefit this will provide will be related to its ability to help entice users to read a user's post further by allowing them to view images in more detail without needing to click on the post, this would essentially be quicker and more convenient for a user.

On the other hand, it will help users decide they want to read a post based on the image, it may provide the user the ability to quickly review content and decide if it's right for them.

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