Comments on: Add Site Screenshots for External Links Using MooTools Tooltips

By: george

george — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:39:27 +0000

I have tested a lot of tools a site sites thumbnail generators to use with a pligg (digg style sms) site but I think that http://www.megasnaps.com is the best for this use. His free web site to image page, create a image of the whole html page, and offers a cropped options too to be downloaded.

The website thumbnails generator service are a good option for any type of web sites, offers a full page and custom sizes for the cheaper price tha I have found. I do a great instalation with ‘facebox’ (jquery), by clicking on a small image it open a larger one ‘facebook style’ image with a full size snapshot looks great!.

By: Chintan Gandhi

Chintan Gandhi — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:28:10 +0000

it looks fine. BTW one can also have ‘cool previews’ firefox addon for the same thing

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:46:44 +0000

I have been using http://www.w3snapshot.com on my blog and it is working nicely.

By: matt t

matt t — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:15:21 +0000

am getting an undefined error on the var tips = new Tips().

Otherwise, using the code as is along with the css etc.

Been trying to get MooTools working for a couple of days and your demo’s are the first to make sense to this noob… Thankyou.

By: T Pink

T Pink — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:58:42 +0000

I would recommend sitethumbshot. Great service in great price. http://www.sitethumbshot.com/premium_service.php

By: Ashton

Ashton — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:30:54 +0000

“@Kepler: The downside of having a free account is that it can max out quickly :). It appears to be a bit slow.”

Yea, that’s a downside, but the upside is the obvious… it’s FREE!

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:09:39 +0000

Hmm, maybe you can ask the guys from the FF Plugin “Googlepreview” (http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview) if its OK to use their large web thumb LIB.
The URLs are really simple like “http://t.googlepreview.com/preview?s=http://www.YOUR-DOMAIN.de&ra=1″, and if there is no thumb, it shows a dummy, but you can request thumb shots of websites.

Greetz from DTown

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:42:42 +0000

@Kepler: The downside of having a free account is that it can max out quickly :). It appears to be a bit slow.

By: Kepler

Kepler — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:11:45 +0000

The demo doesn’t work for me! in FFOX, IE, CHROME.

By: jem

jem — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:30:19 +0000

Nice little feature, the only thing it seems like this could use is some sort of preloader icons, it takes quite a while (at least for me) before the image requests go through from the site… And since the tips class isnt popuplating the page with a tip’s info until its moused over, it kinda kills the effect. You could try using the Assets class and see if you can begin preloading the images from your tipURLs array, might help a bit.