Can I say please don’t? Snap links have been popping up all over the web in the last few months and most sites turned them off after an avalanche of negative user feedback. The use case of someone hovering over a link to find out more about it is just bogus, when I go to a link I go there to click it.

The only thing snap links do is annoy people when they have their mouse cursor on a text and use the keyboard to scroll.

More rants: http://adactio.com/journal/1243

I appreciate what Snap has been doing development-wise, but implementation-wise the effect seems to have turned off alot of users.

Just to see if it was possible, a few months ago I put together a devkit that uses the Snap tools, but instead of displaying screenshots on rollover, it prints them on the page, wrapped in an RSS/XML feed. It’s called Screenshots in Syndication, if you’ll allow the self-link. It’s been really helpful from a web design perspective — if you are a designer who uses delicious to bookmark a lot of beautiful sites throughout the day, you can then tag them by genre, subscribe to the tag’s feed, then use to the devkit to browse your own personal gallery by genres like ‘e-commerce’, ‘ornate’, ‘flash’, etc.

Anyway, just wanted to affirm that Snap technology does have some potential even if it hasn’t been fully realized yet.

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