2006 — Day 27 - snap to it
I expect, as usual, I'm late to the party. I've just discovered the "Snap" tool. It's both a way of searching and a way of getting a preview of what you'll find at an offsite link. Very useful it is, too! But it means pasting some JavaScript into my site... The actual tool download is here.
What with me being such a frightfully well organised chap and all, I've put the code snippet just in front of my "</head>" tag as instructed. But as that's in a server side include I've effectively now rolled out this "snap" facility on every page of my site. We shall have to suck it and see, as it were. Ironically, the only way I can see this snappy tool in action inside my firewall is to browse my site with its Internet address rather than — as I do, for speedier browsing — with its local numeric TCP/IP address. Nor does it seem to play nicely with my image maps; I've emailed the developers accordingly.
After further consideration...
I have decided to confine the activities of the "Snap" tool just to this one page of my site, and to my external links page of my Sitemap. Seems more sensible and, certainly, time-saving. Unwatch this space!
Snap decision
Their developer reply is heartening, though I suppose it shows what an old-fashioned webmaster I am:
You are correct. It doesn't work on image maps. However, thanks to your
letter we are considering some code changes that will enable it to do that.
Thanks for writing!