{"id":265,"date":"2008-08-25T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2008-08-25T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T13:47:08","slug":"attack-of-the-contextual-popup-helpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/attack-of-the-contextual-popup-helpers\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Contextual Popup helpers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Startup Snap<\/a> has been with us for as long as I can remember the modern Web 2.0. While a lot of geeks<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0really hate it, it’s a great thing for novice internet users, since it turns out that they are afraid of clicking links and this removes the ambiguity of that link. Snap.com kindly provided a detailed use case<\/a> and usability findings about their widget that supports this finding. Even though it’s from the makers themselves, it’s still a good read.<\/p>\n

Recently Apture, introduced similar, yet not the same, functionality by providing contextual information for certain types of links, like Wikipedia. They made some interesting progress in fluid dynamic<\/a>, so their boxes bounce around in a really cool fashion.<\/p>\n

They’re both very useful for your site visitors, especially if you want to keep on your site, without making them lost in Wikipedia, with no hope of ever finding outside web<\/em>. There’s only one thing you have to watch out when using them – don’t use them together. Otherwise you’ll get this kind of situation like on the TechCrunch today:<\/p>\n

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Snap and Apture fighting for Top overlay location<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s also an alternative solution for both popup makers to detect when they are running side-by-side and develop their algorithms in a way that doesn’t overlay one on top of each other.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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