If you are a Site Owner of a site that features Snap Preview Anywhere™ OR an end-user of such a site, I’d like to understand the following:
- What do you think of the end-user experience with Snap Preview Anywhere™?
- Is there something about the end-user experience that could be improved upon? If so: What and why?
If you have feedback to share, please do so in the comments below
If you want to share your experience, but would prefer to do so by email, please copy and paste the above question into an email and send it to erik@snap.com.
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Erik,
great feature. I used it on my wordpress blog http://www.calendarreview.com. Very easy to install and works like a charm. Extra feature I would like: easy excluding of the feature for some URLs.
Regards,
Rutger
I saw the feature on http://www.techcrunch.com and loved it right away. We now use it on our calendarportal http://www.markthisdate.com. It's so easy to subscribe and to implement the code. I got it going within 5 minutes. And right now I can't think of anything I would like to see added to Snap Preview. Keep up the good work!
Rutger,
Thanks for your feedback. I'd like to ask a follow-up question:
- Did you have a chance to read the Snap Preview Anywhere™ FAQ?
The FAQ section for "Advanced Bloggers & Site Owners" does contain instructions for how to prevent specific links from having the preview popup appear… but then again, maybe the FAQ is too hard to find? Or the instructions could be easier to understand? Or, who has time to read FAQ's — it should just frickin' work!
If you don't mind, and you haven't already:
- Try finding the FAQ and let me know what that's like.
- If you find it, let me know if you find the instructions helpful.
Cheers.
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Erik Wingren
I really like Snap Preview Anywhere, and am using it on my site… i've thoroughly read and digested the FAQs too :)
What I WOULD like to see, is a way to mark sections of content for inclusion / exclusion rather than individual links.
For example, in my JavaScript line i'd like to set it so it doesn't do all links (which I can do already), but then i'd like to mark a block of content, say with a div, for SPA to work on.
e.g.
contentgoeshere
That would be MUCH MUCH EASIER than tagging individual links.
Please make it happen! :) And keep up the good work ;)
P
PaulOBrien
Thanks for your feedback. We are indeed working on a solution to the functionality you request. This enhancement should be available live shortly but I have to loop back to the dev.team to get a better idea of exactly WHEN…
Give me a day or two and I'll post an update right here: ________
Cheers.
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Erik Wingren
PaulOBrien: I spoke too soon. We are working on the functionality you request but we are still not 100% on how it will work. In other words: too soon to say when it will be available.
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Erik Wingren
Great stuff, thanks :)
P
Hi Erik,
I've implemented Snap Preview Anywhere™ on my site at http://www.daniel15.com/, and will also be implementing it on my WordPress blog and my other sites soon…
I must say, it's absolutely awesome!
Only one problem I noticed: If the link is at the very bottom of the page, the popup box pops up above the link in Internet Explorer, but will still pop up below the link in Opera. Here's some screenshots:
Internet Explorer: http://www.daniel15.com/stuff/snap/PreviewAnywhere-IE-Full.PNG
Opera: http://www.daniel15.com/stuff/snap/PreviewAnywhere-Opera-Full.PNG
Otherwise, it's very nice… Keep up the excellent work! :D
–Daniel15
Daniel: Glad to hear you like it. Please come back and share you impressions as time goes by… I'm not sure why Opera would behave different but I'll try to find out why.
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Erik Wingren
Hi Erik
We've implemented Snap onto www.mylocalservices.co.uk
It offers us a bit more functionality for our premium listing customers, and so far we've had some pretty positive feedback.
To see an example of it in use, go to: this page
cheers
Steve Richardson
My Local Services
Is there any way you would be willing to share the feedback you are getting from your users with me?
Cheers.
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Erik Wingren
I like your Snap Preview Anywhere feature a lot. I have used the feature on my site, http://www.fantasysportslaunchpad.com, and it has added a considerable usability plus to the overall site. I agree with the earlier posts of providing the ability to choose a region (div or span) to contain the feature. Also, I would like to see the ability to control the size (x & y) of the pop-up window, and the ability to launch links within a new browser window or not (control of the link target).
Happy New Year
-Joe
Hi Erik,
I like Snap. I like it a lot. However, I have a little problem. On my site (www.osirra.com), my Snap pop-ups don't align with the links from which they come. So the pop-up is a few inches off to the right. I'm using Firefox2.0.0.1, but the same problem is true in IE7.
It's probably something to do with stylesheets. Can you help?
Dan.
danosirra,
The problem is caused by a conflict between our javascript and the way you set your margins — when the width of your margins are set to auto, the calculation for where to align the preview bubble gets thrown off.
We will investigate this further and try to find a solution that does not cause a conflict. I will let you know as soon as I learn more.
Cheers.
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Erik Wingren
Hi Eric
I have just installed snapcom anywhere on my blog and I think it's really neat but here are my concerns/questions
I did go to you faqs and i was able to get the comments to stop previewing which I felt would be distracting.
However I could not get the email link to turn off or the browse over image links. In other words when my reader mouses over my post image the pop up shows yet another image very redundant i think.
I would like to know how to turn off. I tried pasting in the code to remove internal links using my blog url but that did not work.
And my final question is this. How do I "refresh" so that the previews are current. Some blogs change banners frequently and I would like the preview pages to be current. Can I do this or is it done by snap.com the script etc.
Thank you in advance
Karen
ajijic111,
The FAQ does specify how to prevent links from having a preview bubble appear by adding the link class "snap_nopreview".
The referesh rate of previews are currently an automated process but we are working on enhancements that will allow anyone to manually request refreshing of any page.
Cheers.
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Erik Wingren
Hi Eric,
I did try this via info on faqs and I was able to find href in code for a few of the features but NOT others. The code in our template setting for blogger does not allow access to a lot of the internal code. When I view source from my browser all of the code is there. But in the template feature which allows us to manipulate our html much of it is not there. There is no apparent link for the email link or the image link. So there is no way to place the no preview code in front of these links. Perhaps I am missing it. I would really like to know how to do it.
I would really appreciate your insight on this matter. Many blogs in the design arena will be interested in your great new widjet and kstyle and dress your nest are the first to use as far as I can determine.
So that I can reccomend I would love it if you could be a little more specific as to what I may or may not be doing wrong. There is a blogger forum and I'm sure these questions will come up. Thank you in advance for your time
karen
ajijic111,
I'm personally not familiar with the Blogger platform so I will have to ask one of our QA engineers to look into this. To be continued…
Cheers.
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Erik Wingren
Love this feature…will start implementing in on my blog!
~Scott