Okay … Maybe not so sweet (further reflection on Snap Preview Anywhere)

The euphoria is wearing off … and I’ve had the Snap Preview Anywhere feature on this blog for awhile …

And I’m seriously reconsidering. The one big whonking question for me is “how truly useful is this?”

Okay … it’s cool to have this thing, to a degree … it’s bling for the most part.

Interesting post here by Nick Wilson at Performancing, where he takes great issue with SPA (going so far as calling for its quick death).

As much as I’m not so vicious as Nick Wilson, the tide is turning in my mind … He makes three key points:

 

1. Accidental triggers: When scrolling, or just moving from one element (maybe a link, maybe a photo etc) to another, the unintentional triggering of the SPA popup is distracting, at best. It draws the eye away from the task at hand, and causes annoyance, and loss of concentration — if you’re actually selling anything, pay close attention to this point!
2. Click stalling: Quite often, when trying to click a link that features the Snap abomination, I have to click several times to get the damn thing to work. This is too much effort. If your site is that hard to use, you can bet I wont be back, and neither will others.
3. I trust you: No, really I do! Im at your blog, despite like everyone else being really busy, im at your blog! I just want to follow the fucking link ok? Dont crowd me like some over-eager second hand car salesman trying to sell me a dodgy link, just let me see that its a link, read the anchor text and decide if I want to click it. I dont care what the bloody site looks like, if you’re linking to it, that’s good enough for me — really, get out of my face.

 

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