A search panel, not a pop-up
Looking up a ticker used to mean opening a dialog over the page, finding what you wanted, and watching the dialog close again. Search now opens as a panel down the right-hand side of the screen — and it can stay there.- Dock it beside the page. The pin control in the panel header docks the panel into the layout: the page narrows to make room and the panel sits alongside your content rather than on top of it. Unpin it and it floats above the page again, still open.
- A docked panel stays put. It survives moving from one ticker to the next and reloading the page, and choosing a result no longer closes it. A floating panel still closes once you pick something, and on Esc or a click outside.
- Size it to suit you. Drag the left edge of the panel to set its width — anywhere from 280 to 560 pixels — and double-click the edge to return to the default. The width you settle on is remembered between visits, and docking the panel in one browser tab applies in your other tabs too.
- Move through results from the keyboard. Up and down walk the results while the cursor stays in the search field, left and right switch between market tabs, and Enter opens the ticker. The resize handle is reachable with Tab and moves with the arrow keys.
- Room is made, not taken. Ticker pages now lay themselves out against the width of the content area rather than the width of the window, so docking the panel folds columns down neatly instead of cramming them.
The search panel is a desktop feature. On a phone or tablet, search opens full-screen as before.
Ticker pages that arrive settled
Ticker pages have been rebuilt around how they load, not just what they show.- Fewer waits before anything appears. The data behind a page’s sections is now requested alongside the page itself instead of after it, which takes a whole round of waiting out of the time before the first paint.
- No more jumping as sections fill in. Every placeholder has been re-measured against the content that replaces it. Some were badly short — the overview on an index page reserved a fraction of the height it needed on mobile — so a section arriving would shove everything below it down the page. Placeholders now hold the right amount of room from the start.
- The right numbers for the right ticker. Moving from one ticker to another could briefly show figures belonging to the ticker you had just left, until fresh data arrived and replaced them. Widgets now keep their data separated per ticker, so what you see belongs to the page you are on.
Links that behave like links
A lot of what looked clickable in i88 was not actually a link — it was a plain element with a click handler, which the browser knew nothing about. That has been put right across the platform.- Ticker symbols in tables — on the screener, and in market, watchlist, performance and top indices widgets — are real links now.
- Price cards, search results, profile and mobile menus, and the previous and next navigation on news and blog articles followed.
Where a table deliberately does not link out — dividend rows, country allocation — nothing became clickable that was not clickable before.
A preview for every section
Paste an i88 link into a chat, a post or a document and the preview now matches the page it points to.- Each section has artwork of its own. The calendar, news, the screener, the heatmap and the blog each preview as themselves rather than falling back to a generic i88 card.
- Ticker links build their own preview. A link to a ticker page comes back with the logo of the asset, set in a metal ring, and its name — so a shared link reads as that company or coin at a glance.
- A square variant travels alongside the wide one, for the messengers and apps that draw a small square thumbnail instead of a banner.
- Previews now also declare their dimensions and carry a written description of what the image shows, which helps the platforms that would otherwise skip the image.
Dashboard filters, tidied
The filter controls in widget headers across the dashboard have been brought onto the shared component set of the platform.- You can see which filter is open. A filter stays visibly pressed while its menu is on screen — previously nothing marked the open one.
- Icons are the size they were meant to be. Several filter and pagination icons were rendering at the wrong size and now match the rest of the interface; chevrons were redrawn smaller and lighten on hover.
- Keyboard users get the same treatment as the mouse. The filters are proper buttons now, so they take focus, show a focus ring and activate from the keyboard, and hover styling applies to keyboard focus as well.
- The retry button on a failed widget uses the standard control instead of a one-off, and the widget header now sits flush against the widget body.
- Scrolling a column that holds a single widget no longer sticks when the widget reaches its end — the column takes over.
Smaller things
- The impact indicator on calendar events tells the truth. Events whose direction was unknown always drew the same middle-strength icon regardless of how important they were, at 20% opacity — so a high-impact release looked like any other and was barely visible either way. The indicator is now drawn from the actual impact level of the event in every case, with unlit bars in neutral grey, and unknown or neutral events get a flat symmetrical mark instead of a rising one that implied a direction.
- Blog moved up the navigation rail, and the TV view now sits at the bottom behind a divider — it is a display mode rather than another section of the platform.
Added
- Ticker search as a side panel you can dock beside the page
- Adjustable search panel width, remembered between visits
- Link previews tailored to each section of i88
Improved
- Ticker pages open faster and settle without shifting as they load
- Tickers, menu items and article navigation open in a new tab and can be copied as links
- Shared ticker links now carry the asset logo and name in the preview
- Clearer filter controls across dashboard widgets, with a visible open state
- Smoother scrolling in dashboard columns that hold a single widget
- Blog sits higher in the navigation, with the TV view set apart
Fixed
- Ticker pages no longer show figures from the ticker you came from
- Impact level on calendar events now matches the event
See Platform Overview for the navigation rail and toolbar, Ticker Pages for what a ticker page holds, and Economic Calendar for how impact levels are read.