not martha

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

please

How to disable the stupid Snap Preview things that are popping up on everyone's site these days. At Kottke.

10 Comments »

  1. UGH. Thank you for this. I HATE those things.

    Comment by Abby — January 30, 2007 @ 9:38 am

  2. I hate those things too! It really makes it difficult to read the blog.

    Comment by Melinda — January 30, 2007 @ 9:42 am

  3. Thank you! thank you! thank you!

    Comment by Elizabeth — January 30, 2007 @ 9:44 am

  4. I had it on my website briefly and now I'm embarrassed! I thought it was kinda cool but it's definitely not worth it if half your readers are annoyed. Personally I'm more annoyed when people don't make it obvious from their text where the links are leading to.

    Comment by Kim — January 30, 2007 @ 10:15 am

  5. I should say the link is a quote directly from kottke.org! So, Kim, I didn't mean to offend you or anybody who does have those up. I'm so sorry.

    I had barely registered the pop up (over?) images, and while they didn't annoy me I had no idea what they were. I like to use my mouse to explore images like it's a laser pointer and when I went to mouse over this image of the Land of Oz a Snap preview appeared obscuring the image. So that's why I turned them off, a strange habit of mine.

    Comment by megan — January 30, 2007 @ 10:28 am

  6. Thanks for this - I had wondered where those previews were appearing from. For anyone who has a Wordpress site, I've just found their instructions for how to turn off the previews from your site

    Comment by Laura VW — January 30, 2007 @ 12:55 pm

  7. Thanks Laura!

    Comment by megan — January 30, 2007 @ 6:41 pm

  8. Interesting... i had clicked on the cbs link on the sponges and they have that stupid preview thing.. i was like.. "omg wth is this, how annoying.. how can i disable this" Yahoo has them too..

    Comment by Cupcakes — January 30, 2007 @ 7:03 pm

  9. Thank you God.

    Thank you Baby Jesus.

    Bastard things, those snap windows.

    Comment by shula — January 30, 2007 @ 9:46 pm

  10. I actually like them. But hmmm, if they annoy people then maybe they have to go...

    Comment by marielle — February 1, 2007 @ 6:32 am



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