popups .. are they here to stay?

i have a mixed relationship with popups. they are annoying when they are trying to display an unwanted advertisement, and i don't want to go and manage windows that open all over the place.

however, popups are now taking new shapes. they are no longer new windows that i have to manage but just another layer in my current window.

like hover.in, that provides contextual information on highlighted text.



or take for instance snap shots, that displays a preview of the links on the page.



however, it would be interesting to watch how these pop ups will adapt in the hand held displays? does iPhone have popups?

1 comment:

Bosky said...

Hi there,
Like someone said -"You can love em, you can hate em... but you can't ignore em" 8 )

We're definitely trying to explore how more interaction and utility aspect can be brought into the scene,as oppose to the more generic popups or plain vanilla ads.

We'd love to hear more from users so that we can enable themes (our emo showed multiple themed hoverin windows).

We open our beta version around Dec-Jan, and we'd love to hear more from you . 8 )

Keep Clicking,
Bhasker V Kode,
Co-Founder/ CTO , http://hover.in