Definitely not feeling the Snap 31 Jan 2007

Following yesterday's post on Snap Preview Anywhere, we stumbled across Nick Wilson's rant over at Performancing. Wilson feels that "Snap's preview anywhere gizmo is ruining the reading experience for millions of people. Its intrusive, obstructive and unuseful in almost every respect and use case. The fact that so many big blogs are using it, big well respected blogs, does not mean that it's useful, it just means that they, like most bloggers, have all the self restraint of a magpie in a sparkly things factory."

Wilson also provides "3 Reasons Why Snap Preview is Ruining Your Blog, and Hurting Your Readership":

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! I'm at your blog, despite like everyone else being really busy, i'm at your blog! I just want to follow the f**king 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."