B10[mg]

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).