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View Poll Results: The most annoying and pointless code ever devised is....
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Mouse Trails
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20 |
16.67% |
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Popup Wndows
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34 |
28.33% |
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Blinking Animations
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42 |
35.00% |
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Resizing Button or Text Mouseovers
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1 |
0.83% |
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Floating Z-Layers
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1 |
0.83% |
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Rotating Background Colors
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2 |
1.67% |
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Animated Graphics, Flash, etc.
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4 |
3.33% |
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Page Enter or Exit Transitions
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6 |
5.00% |
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Cookie Scripting
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2 |
1.67% |
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Other (please post what it is!)
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8 |
6.67% |
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09-08-2003, 09:15 AM
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WebProWorld New Member
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: East Alton, IL
Posts: 1
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Pet Peeves
My pet peeve is flashing graphics. When I am trying to read or concentrate on important, technical information, it often becomes very difficult to do so with a flashing graphic. Oftentimes, if possible, I will just go to another site or area for information, rather than having to deal with this.
I believe that many people "turn off" when they encounter this type of annoyance. If the advertisers want to keep more people, stop "flashing" us!
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09-09-2003, 03:00 PM
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WebProWorld Member
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: NYC, Finally
Posts: 80
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the worst
The worst is pop-under ads that only appear after you exit a web site. What genius thought this would actually please somebody.
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09-10-2003, 03:43 PM
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WebProWorld Veteran
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: New York
Posts: 485
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Pop-ups are definitely annoying...but just remember, it is not always the site that allows them...
Not long ago, I was on MY site ( http://www.ampacet.com) when I started getting pop-ups. Turned out there was some adware/spyware on my machine from another site that was pulling pop-ups from wherever I was...so those annoying pop-ups could be from your own machine...not the site. |
09-16-2003, 05:57 PM
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WebProWorld Pro
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Kansas City, MO
Posts: 209
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Another bit of annoying code I forgot to add to the poll would be framesets code.
Three things I dislike are:
As many browser windows as I usually hold open on my desktop, my system hits a "resources unavailable" limit with fewer sites open in my browser if I happen to be researching information and hit a predominance of framed sites.
Another issue, albeit more philosophical, is that framesets stretch or even break the paradigm of the worldwide web--presenting, displaying, transferring, and indexing page information and not parts of a set of components appearing as a page. Also, since HTML was designed as a SGML markup language subset, incorporating framesets into HTML further weakens the relationship of HTML and SGML (and now, the XML model)....
The last thing I hate is that framesets make it so easy for someone to take my site pages and make it look like my resources are theirs!
It happened to me a few months ago: while checking my search engine rankings,the page right above and below one of my pages were framesets sites using my page as content frame source (and incorporating my hard-earned otimizations into their site with little effort on their part). Both happened to be college undergrads wanting a shortcut to my page's table of information; emails to one got my content removed and replaced with a nice text link to my page, but the other one took a second email to the university webmaster who got the site removed from the university domain space.)
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09-18-2003, 04:02 PM
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WebProWorld New Member
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: US citizen living in Haifa, Israel
Posts: 15
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Re: The Most Pointless and Annoying Code Ever Devised is...
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Originally Posted by lgtaylor
It has to be pop-ups! [ ... ] I especially hate the ones that take over my browsing, and then try to sell me a pop-up stopper! [ ... ]
Linda G. Taylor, GVA
411 Design Street
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Nobody with Netscape 7.x or IE 4.x needs a pop-up stopper. You can suppress pop-ups in your Netscape preferences, and configure IE to ask you before *any* kind of script loads.
This has made my browsing experience much happier :) |
09-29-2003, 01:40 PM
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WebProWorld Pro
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Kansas City, MO
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I came across another annoyance this weekend while visiting a site I frequent--after logging in, they now open all browser windows full screen, and disable all user controls--toolbars, right-click, all scrolling bars, restore down button...! The site uses fixed-font sizes in their CSS, and now I can't reset the window or font size according to my comfort levels!
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10-19-2003, 04:30 AM
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WebProWorld Member
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Cork. Ireland
Posts: 31
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A couple of days after reading this particular topic (and agreeing with most of the anti posts) I was surfing with my small son and came across this
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/an...mo/index2.html
This is a realy good instance of a mouse trail. check it out...
John. |
10-19-2003, 02:06 PM
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WebProWorld 1,000+ Club
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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It's also a really good example of Flash usage.
Now all we need is someone to trash both the mouse trail (because ALL mouse trails are bad, you know - something to do with Microsoft, no doubt), and the Flash (because all Flash is bad - also something to do with Microsoft - and it should be text only).
:)
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10-19-2003, 04:13 PM
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WebProWorld Member
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Cork. Ireland
Posts: 31
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Mmmm... black screen, white text, flashing cursor... kinda reminds me of my old sinclair zx81 or was that the atari 800xl? ;-)
John
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