Comments on: Snap Preview Anywhere Has Got To Go; Even Though They Placed ShandyKing in Top 100

By: Future of Web Preview - CoolIris or Snap? | TechTracer

Future of Web Preview - CoolIris or Snap? | TechTracer — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:29:12 +0000

[...] preview on a mouse hover. This aspect of snap has been disliked by many bloggers. You can read the incident of ShandyKing removing the Snap Preview from his blog even on making an entry in the top 100 list of snap users. That was sad. CoolIris even has options [...]

By: How to Turn Off Snap Preview on WordPress Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress

How to Turn Off Snap Preview on WordPress Blogs « Lorelle on WordPress — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:27:51 +0000

[...] a second opinion? ShandyKing disabled Snap Preview based upon feedback from his readers, even after he posted an article that got him in the top [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:31:27 +0000

Yes… is there a quick way to tag links so that some have the pop-up and some do not???

By: ilker

ilker — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:11:50 +0000

agreed!

By: poo » Blog Archive » Previews, a great thing (usually)

poo » Blog Archive » Previews, a great thing (usually) — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:09:57 +0000

[...] However, you can really only see the basic page layout, you can’t possibly make out the text and it can be annoying if you’re scrolling through a page and you get what is essentially a pop-up. There have been negative comments on it as well, you’ll see a good summary of the bad points in these posts. [...]

By: shandyking

shandyking — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:40:46 +0000

Welcome to the blog RobWatts and thanks for posting. I removed the snap plug-in now but i do recall there is some special tagging you can do to customize what links get snapped and what dont.

By: robwatts

robwatts — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:43:13 +0000

Just popped in from a link at ogletrees, nice blog!

This snap thing. I think it certainly has a place, but as you say, maybe not on blog posts.

I use it on a directory or two and plan on adding it to a couple of other projects. Ever since we lost the ability to use the free thumbnails from alexa i’d been racking my brains for a similar alternative, snap is a good fit.

I think they could offer a few more options maybe.

Maybe it could work well with say, a blogroll for instance. Some little nosnap comment tags perhaps to exclude certain areas.

>If I was quietly walking around minding my own business and someone jumped out in front of me, I might very well punch that person in the face.

LOL - thanks for the chuckle

By: Hawaii SEO

Hawaii SEO — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:50:41 +0000

It’s a cool little gadget bit I already believe the links you serve are relevant and trustworthy. Many times you link to websites I’m already familiar with so it doesn’t help my experience. I do kind of like the gadget that tells you the popularity of the outgoing links for some reason. I don’t know why.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:58:44 +0000

Wow Top 100, ShandyKing?! Yeah, that would be too many invasive Snap previews that might trigger your readers to eventually just want to punch you in the face. I agree with Greg; less is more. Code up some snazzy stars trailing around your mouseover links instead. :p

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:08:06 +0000

I hear you loud and clear. This is why I had Cooliris Previews installed (Firefox plugin that does a similar thing) but ended up disabling it. It’s too obtrusive.

Some people will definitely like it, but it’s not for everyone.