Why is it that website seem to annoy people more and more instead of
helping them? Here's a small list of things that really bug me.
- Captcha
- useless accounts
- dynamic content
- pointless Javascripts
Captcha
Captcha is a technique used
too much right now. The word is an acronym for
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
It's a test to find out whether you're dealing with a non-blind
human or a computer/blind person. Quite annoying.
Useless accounts
Close to every website offers/requires you to sign up for no
apparent reason nowadays. Thank god there are ways to counter this
annoyances with BugMeNot,
Mailinator, DodgeIt
and more.
Dynamic content
Is it cool or 1337 to use PHP? Why is everybody using it to generate
their content on the fly? Cool, pull your data from a MySQL database.
I'm willing to bet that the majority of the PHP sites could function
without problems if they used static HTML files. (And no, I don't
care at all to not be able to see your server's localtime on your
website).
So why waste CPU time and the wonderful Last-Modified HTTP
header?
Pointless Javascripts
I've come to understand that Javascript can be handy. If you
have a slow connection, it's nice to see client side form validation
before the server will respond to you again with errors. But what's
this This function has been disabled message when I right click
on a page? Does that prevent me from looking at the horribly
generated Frontpage source code? Or does it prevent me from looking
at stolen Javascripts? Stop it, it's annoying.
Also don't break my back button's function. I do use it, yes, quite
often.
I could probably rant on on more topics like useless use of Flash
and what not, but I'll save that for later (and for you, so feel
free to dump your comments).