I hate Snap Preview
ckunte.com | I hate Snap Preview
This is why I hate the distractive Snap preview, no thanks to TechCrunch or Wordpress.com for pimping it.
Lorelle on WordPress | WordPress.com, Please Stop Using Snap Preview
It appeared that without warning, and WordPress.com blogs have been hit with one of the new blights on the web: Snap Preview Anywhere.
It appeared that without warning, and WordPress.com blogs have been hit with one of the new blights on the web: Snap Preview Anywhere.
Planet Mike just pointed out that my blog is now littered with Snap Preview Anywhere link page previews. When you hover over any link on my site, it loads a preview of that site in a small pop-up window.
To explain how I feel about this feature, I’m going to start with Mike’s words
have stumbled across several sites that are using this technology, and I find it distracting. I’m reading through a page, I scroll down and the mouse randomly ends up over a link. Poof! a pop-up window appears, and I’m looking at the preview of that linked page. It is quite distracting, partially because the preview is slow to load, and partially because something is happening on the web page that I’m not expecting. I’m not expecting anything because I’m not doing anything to cause something to happen. Simply moving my mouse and not clicking should not cause something to happen. The behavior is very similar to pop-up ads.