{"id":2026,"date":"2007-12-13T14:14:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/13\/please-god-no-more-pop-up-links\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:14:22","slug":"please-god-no-more-pop-up-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/13\/please-god-no-more-pop-up-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Please God, no more pop-up links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me just say I’m glad to see Yahoo moving into the Web 2.0 social-media area, integrating its services with blogs through the Yahoo Shortcuts service\/widget<\/a> for WordPress — and I’m a huge fan of Alex King, the WordPress plugin genius who designed the feature<\/a> (and also did the wonderful Share This plugin) — but this new Yahoo offering makes me very nervous. Why? Because of the potential for an outbreak of one of my least favourite features: pop-up links.<\/p>\n

I don’t just find pop-up links irritating — I absolutely loathe and detest them (I’m not the only one<\/a>). In fact, I will go out of my way to avoid websites that use them. And I don’t particularly care whether they are informative or advertising-based. I don’t like Snap’s pop-up windows, even though the link is placed beside the text, because it is automatically triggered when your mouse moves over it. <\/p>\n

I don’t really like Adaptive Blue’s<\/a> links either, but at least they aren’t triggered automatically. And don’t even get me started on those text-link ads that pretend to be hyperlinks (except they have two underlines instead of one) and trigger a gigantic popup with a Microsoft search or an advertising link in it. As soon as I see those links on a site, I am gone.<\/p>\n

To be fair, Yahoo’s widget just gives you the stuff<\/a> — the stock chart, or the Yahoo search results, or the Flickr photos (which I must admit is kind of cool) — and you can then decide to include them right in the body of your post or attach them as text link pop-ups. For the love of all that is good and holy, please don’t do the latter. I’m begging you.<\/p>\n

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Let me just say I’m glad to see Yahoo moving into the Web 2.0 social-media area, integrating its services with blogs through the Yahoo Shortcuts service\/widget for WordPress — and I’m a huge fan of Alex King, the WordPress plugin genius who designed the feature (and also did the wonderful Share This plugin) — but … <\/p>\n

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