July 26, 2007
SnapShots
I've added SnapShopts from snap.com to my blog. This is a way to have an automatic preview of each and every external link on the site. It can be fine tuned, enabling or disabling specific links, so I might change how it works a little over time (suggestions are welcome). Since I like this feature from other sites, as I can figure out if I'm really interested in a link before opening it, I decided to add it to this blog and possibly to some of the other sites I manage (and there are quite a few) in the near future.
Notice, there is also a SnapShot plug in for Firefox. Interesting, although it makes it a little confusing to figure out on which sites it was originally enabled....
Later
As I got a few complains and noticed some weird links myself, I decided to keep the snapshot of the links only for the body of the blog posts, removing them from the rest of the site... but if I keep getting complains I'll get rid of them or let users activate them only if they like the idea.
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Very annoying! I vote that you turn this off! LaryComment by Larr Shepard [http://larrysdelphiblog.blogspot.com/] on July 26, 17:51
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I agree that it's not useful TO ME, but messing with it I see that there is a little cog icon (settings) that allows me to disable the feature for all sites. This seems to be a 10 second fix that will last forever (or until you clear cookies or change IPs or whatever they use).Comment by Andrew on July 26, 19:19
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I'm sorry to say this, but I personally find SnapShot pretty annoying. I noticed that more and more sites use this which is very unfortunate. But if you like it, just keep it :)Comment by Dennis [http://blog.gurock.com/] on July 26, 23:14
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Snapshots are one of the reasons I dislike Internet Explorer. These things are very annoying. I know of no way to disable them in IE. Firefox is what I useComment by Invar Brass [] on July 27, 05:01
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Comment by Alf on July 26, 16:15