Snap Preview
I just added a javascript snippet to our site that lets you hover over a link and see an image preview of the page that the link is pointing to. It was super easy to add and comes from this site - Snap Preview Anywhere.
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It’s surprisingly.. um.. snappy!
Um, I tried it on the sidebar links and some of the images are cached from *six months ago*. What’s the point?
hmm, 6 months ago? that’s not so good. which links??
it only appears to be useful for links to sites that they already have in their image database (something that someone already hovered over somewhere else)…otherwise you have to wait for the preview image which takes too long. anyways, if it gets annoying you can remove the snippet from the header (it’s the two lines right before < / head>
The preview of Adam’s Fair and Balanced blog shows the front page entry from June 25..
While we are talking about blog improvements, I have a thought (uh oh!)
I love the comments that people leave here. What if we made them appear on the front page, along side the post. See here for an example in practice (although their posts are generally very short).
As an alternative, how about installing the Inline Ajax Comments plugin? See here for an example (clicky on the ’show comments’ link)
that would be cool! I also like how Matt Haughey has his recent comments in his sidebar (although i guess we’ve got a lot going on in ours, so it may get too busy). we could also switch to a 3 column format and show most recent comments in a separate sidebar
speaking of comments, i’ve noticed that we get a lot of phantom comments. i wonder where they’re coming from!
I think this is the bugfix for the phantom comment issue…I’m too sleepy to deal with it tho :)
(it’s a problem with the captcha plugin)
Oh, apparently SecureImage also blogs trackbacks and pings, causing this to happen. Here is a fix.