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Filed under Thoughts on December 10, 2007 by Chris LoSacco

A Crappy New York Times Feature

From a conversation I just had with Chris Dary:

4:01:53 PM (Chris L.): most annoying feature:
4:02:00 PM (Chris L.): when you're reading a nytimes article
4:02:06 PM (Chris L.): and you highlight something
4:02:13 PM (Chris L.): it pops up a definition page
4:02:21 PM (Chris L.): I'm constantly highlighting stuff and I don't want the popups!
4:02:27 PM Chris D.: Ugh - definitely. I already know what you're talking about because I hate it so much
4:02:35 PM Chris D.: I highlight when I read compulsively
4:02:41 PM (Chris L.): me too
4:02:46 PM Chris D.: I think it's pretty common actually
 

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Maybe you shouldn't highlight things? Maybe you should keep your cursor away from the text? I don't know, just putting this out there, but maybe you should read the content like sane folks? Just some friendly jabs. :)

I have noticed the same behavoir on a particular site I frequent but instead when hovering over text you get inline pop-ups that are ads! So consider yourself lucky if you are getting definitions!

Just to clarify though is the pop-up you are talking about an actual styled inline window or the result of using a title attribute (tool tip) on an HTML tag?

Posted on December 10, 2007 7:01 PM by Javier Julio

I wish I could control my hyperactive cursor, believe me! :)

Actually, it turns out that it's really when you double click that you get the popup. See here:

http://tinyurl.com/2dwyzb

If you double click an item on that page, you'll get the popup. It's not even an inline styled window, as you say, but a full fledged popup! Seems useful at first, but it turns out to be really annoying for compulsive clickers like Chris Dary and me.

Posted on December 11, 2007 9:38 AM by Chris LoSacco

I do the same thing! And I agree that it's annoying.

Posted on December 16, 2007 2:14 PM by Avi Flax

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