lab.arc90.com — When the mouse pointer hovers over a link pointing to somewhere outside of your site, the script displays a small image of the destination page. It's a nice visual cue that serves a very real purpose: providing a clearer picture of what's ahead.
Jul 18, 2006 View in Crawl 4
headzooJul 18, 2006
"what, you have to generate the image yourself? I dont see that in the article."No, you don't. If you look at the source code, you'll see it's grabbing the thumbnails from <a class="user" href="http://thumbnails.alexa.com.">http://thumbnails.alexa.com.</a> You don't have to do anything more than add the JS to your documents.
mrjiggsJul 19, 2006
Forgive me replying to my own post, but <a class="user" href="http://www.lipsum.com">http://www.lipsum.com</a> has a neat "Lorem Ipsum" generator for those who want to use it for testing their own sites, documents, etc.
mtthwmiddletonJul 19, 2006
I agree, as a web programmer you need to know how any eye candy you use performs on different browsers, if a fairily popular browser like Safari doesn't work well with this I think people need to know
kimngan070605Jul 19, 2006
Me too
willcode4beerJul 19, 2006
@headzoo, in the javascript (in the zip file), that line is commented out.Its getting them from: <a class="user" href="http://msnsearch.srv.girafa.com/srv/i?s=MSNSEARCH&r=yourSite.com">http://msnsearch.srv.girafa.com/srv/i?s=MSNSEARCH&r=yourSite.com</a>Trying for my site gave "preview not available"
willcode4beerJul 19, 2006
zoom, very cool, thanks for sharing.I can see combining that with a lenya deployment
willcode4beerJul 19, 2006
Browster works for you. This script works for people who visit your site.Two different things completely