Among these features are an elegant reworking of the menu bar, wonderfully easy ways to move and resize images on the page, and color-coded pop-up comment boxes that are a marked improvement over the "track changes" feature in today's word processors.
They also contained a version of the film in its basic CGI and sketch form, with the option of pop-up comments on the film.
Whenever the viewer of "Terrace House" begins gliding too deeply into his trance — lapsing into a sober meditation on his own selfhood, for instance — a panel of Japanese celebrities pop up to comment on the action.
Creators may block their own home address, for example, as well as share lists of words that tend to pop up in hostile comments.
And when talking heads -- Bruce Willis, Quincy Jones, Don Rickles, Sinatra's youngest daughter, Tina -- pop up to offer comments, "Sinatra: His Voice, His World, His Way" suggests a wacky, hyperbolic A&E "Biography".
As soon as the list is published online, someone has to pop up in the comments to say: "How could you leave out my favorite?" or "Since you included this, there is no way I can trust your list".
There is a small, but vocal, contingent of readers who pop up in the comments on e-reader stories and say they love their Sony Reader or such and such model.
You don't see this person pop up in the comments section outside of freebie Fridays.
"Can I have her?" popped up one comment.
The director, Josie Rourke, popped up to comment on the Donmar's history, while the designer, Lucy Osborne, showed some examples of Roman graffiti on her iPad.
The 2003 film of his life, American Splendor, elevated him to international status when Paul Giamatti perfectly nailed his rasping rants, with Pekar himself popping up to comment on the onscreen depiction of himself in a fine piece of meta-cinema.
