I love Snap Preview Anywhere™, it's awesome :)
I came across Snap Preview Anywhere when visiting a friend's site (they were using it). As soon as I saw it, I thought to myself, "This is so cool! I must use it on my site!". Keep up the good work! :D

I would like to try Snap Preview, I saw it on http://highearthorbit.com/ and it was impessive looking, however I just tried to load www.snap.com and it seems to be 404.

thx
RH

Thanks for your encouraging words.

Daniel15: If you end up implementing Snap Preview Anywhere™ on your own site I hope you will consider coming back here and share your experience.

rrhobbs: Did you get a 404 when visiting Snap.com or was it the preview popup that somehow failed?

Cheers.
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Erik Wingren

I was getting a 404 but not with a 404 message, the page would just load a blank- eventually I started to suspect maybe you were in my Spybot Search and Destroy hosts file, and sure enough, there you were. It was no small task removing snap.com that hosts file is HUGE and bogs down the whole machine working with it, but I did remove the entry and will try out Snap Preview. Gimme a week or two I'll let you know what I think.

p.s. dont feel bad having been (presumably predatorily?) placed in the SSD blacklist database, I had to fish metafilter.com out of there the same way. You might want to contact SSD.

thx
RH

rrhobs,

We will contact safer-networking.org to see why we are on the blacklist… Thanks for the heads up!

Cheers.
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Erik Wingren

My experience? Abysmal - sorry.

I had Snap activated on my blog and recommended it (snap, not my blog) in a widely read forum.

I then got a lot of complaints that the previews wouldn't work, e.g using Firefox on a Mac. I wrote a trouble ticket, and then got this reply:

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You are correct. For safety reasons, the minimum requirements are XP
(any version) and IE (v6.0 and up). It MAY work on other Windows
versions. It will NOT work in any other browsers.

Sorry.

Brad
Snap Customer Service
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From that moment snap was history for me. It's not coming back to my site any time soon.

My experience was also bad - I'd installed it but it didn't work. why? because my site was served not as HTML but as XHTML document.

When I changed it snap popup finally appeared, but in wrong position (I guess that it happened because body on my site has position:relative, width and margin:0 auto)

If you fix that problems snap will surely come back to my site.

The snap tool was super easy to install and everytime I show it to my friends they are impressed by the feature. You can see how I implemented it at my blog http://www.illinoisforeclosurepro.blogspot.com.

Keep up the good work!

As a real estate broker I am always looking for ideas to help my business, but more importantly help my clients get their homes sold, and help buyers find a home faster. I have found that the more homes are exposed to potential buyers the faster they sell. Great for both buyers and sellers. My clients can go to my website & use snap to take a quick view of homes, virtual tours, etc. If they see what they like the will click over and preview more that the home has to offer. That's important to business because it takes less time to find the perfect home. I just added snap to my real estate website http://www.behomesaferealty.com and love the extra little umph it gives my site compared to other real estate professionals in our area. I am still in the process of adding IDX software to the property search pages of my website but once completed I know it will kick butt over the competition. I just want to say thanks and I will continue telling other agents that work with me to "snap" to it! If you have questions or comments about my website please let me know. Lantz Burvant Broker Owner Be Home Safe Realty http://www.behomesaferealty.com/BBLOG.html

Dear Erik,

I like the snap preview very much, but somehow it doesn't work well on my weblog (www.verbaljam.nl). It looks as if the preview script doesn't finish completely, because it keeps showing a box 'loading snap preview' under the preview image. Maybe it's a conflict with another script, but I can't figure out what. Maybe it's a known problem to you, so I thought: I better ask then. ;-)
Do you have any suggestion/solution?
Thanks in advance!
Arnoud

Thanks very much for your efforts, Erik! I don't know what the prototype.js is, let alone that I know about an older version, but everything seems to work know. ;-)
I'm happy.

Erik,
i think your product is great! ..no glitches..was sooo easy to install..i was impressed (and im not the kinda girl that is easy to impress!!) …you guys did ALLLL the work for me.. i know this isnt very helpful, if your trying to identify glitches and what not,…. but i thought y'all deserved a pat on the back! so cheers!! this vodka tonic is for y'all!!
xoxo
sb

Hi Erik,

I was wondering if you could tell me what would cause my previews not to show up on my blog? I'm using the Snap Preview AnywhereTM Plugin v1.1. I can confirm that I've set the options to display previews and I have my key in there as well.

I get the rollover, but it always says "preview unavailable at this time". I can also confirm that the plugin is configured to add the code to the footer, and after looking at the source I see it there. My blog is www.familywebwatch.com/blog .

Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Hi, I just wanted to say, I love this! It works great on my forum :)

I only have one question though. Can the snap preview work on MSN MySpace? If so, then how?

I think it's a great idea — a lot of people seem to have missed the use of Snap in NSFW scenarios. Sometimes, you have a website that you are unsure of, because it might not be safe to visit from work. Something like Snap would be useful under those scenarios.

That said, I think Snap should be inclusive, rather than exclusive. By this, I mean that rather than have a user specify the links that s/he does not want previewed, Snap should only preview those links that the user specifies to be previewed.

That way, every external link is not previewed by default.

The other problem is that of right-clicking — there have been times when I have right clicked out of habit to open the new website in a new tab/window, and the preview popup appears right over the menu bar. But I think this is a learning issue (i.e. we are not used to having a preview, so we do not pause/react to see if there is something else in the space where the menu pops up).

Either way, great idea! Way to go, guys.

Hi Erik,

I went to the forum as you suggested. I saw someone who had the same trouble and walked in their footsteps. Basically, all I did to get it working was to regenerate a key. It's fine now. Thanks for your help!

Ken

Experience good so far; is it possible, i wonder, that some sites do not allow previews to be captured?
In my last post title the linked website is previewed as a blank page, but the correct URL is shown and the linked page loads fine.
Best from Italy :)
Luigi

Much obliged Erik!
I'll keep an (RSS) eye on this Blog and these comments …
Ciao,
Luigi

Seems that snap preview was down yesterday, but all seems to be fine again! :)
How often does snap preview update the snapshots if at all? I'm just curious becuase I just changed the templete on one of my sites a couple of days ago and the preview is still showing the old layout.

Keep up the great work! :)

Good Widget

Thus far it has added an aesthetic and user friendly touch to several websites - one flaw is the inability to customize the Snap Preview Box Table background Color to blend in with the background color or image of a Website.

It is perfect for Websites with white or pale yellow background colors - but not so harmonious with certin dark colored background WebPages

Perhaps it could also combine a traffic stats script along with the preview script - thus giving Stats to Webmasters from just one widget

All I got was complaints from users so I removed the code. I, personally, was getting irritated at seeing it on every site I visited. I don't find it helpful on the average blog but on sites that link out a lot and on Wikis I find it helpful. Oh well.

From everything I have read, either on the Snap site or in comments from users, getting Snap Preview Everywhere should be… well, a snap !

However, I can't get it to work on my site, www.360kmh.com. I have read above that somebody else was experiencing difficulty with an XHTML site, versus simple HTML. Mine is XHTML. Is it why I cannot get Snap to work ?

Oups ! Sorry, I finally got it to work. It was most probably caused by a script in my CMS which conflicted with Snap. Got around it and it works fine. I wrote a piece on Snap, for the trouble ! It is in French though.

I have just uninstalled Snap from my PC on recommendation of a PC Tech Forum as I was having persistant popup issues since downloading SNAP.

Is this the case?

Since I have followed their advice on uninstalling a number of files I don't have a problem.

Is your software bundled with other software to cause popups?

Is there any way to enable Snap Preview to display the target pages of Google Ad links? This would encourage visitors to my website www.majikradio.com to click-through on the links. This could conceivably increase my daily earnings from an average $0.03/day to a mind-boggling $0.10-$0.12/day.

I have found this to be a very nice plugin for my blog. However, I want it to work to capture links in my posts, not everything else. Some of the links in my posts are internal, so I had to enable it to capture internal links. Unfortunately this makes the entire blog a mess. Perhaps it should only captures links in a post or page.

A good comment I'd like to say is that I love the MP3 player used. I work with sound quite a bit and am disappointed with many virtual MP3 players online. When I turn the volume down on those, at some point a ton of frequencies get cut off. However, with this MP3 player, the frequencies are still there, everything is equalized beautifully. The other thing I hate about others is that if it is too loud, some frequencies are drowning everything else out or are too loud. However, like I said before, this one equalizes everything. Great job!