The most annoying and pointless code ever devised is.... - Page 2

support1 · #51 (**permalink**) 09-08-2003, 09:15 AM

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!

gwsoccer14 · #52 (**permalink**) 09-09-2003, 03:00 PM

The worst is pop-under ads that only appear after you exit a web site. What genius thought this would actually please somebody.

esiegel · #53 (**permalink**) 09-10-2003, 03:43 PM

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.

tertius · #54 (**permalink**) 09-16-2003, 05:57 PM

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.)

kthulah · #55 (**permalink**) 09-18-2003, 04:02 PM

Quote:

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

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 :)

tertius · #56 (**permalink**) 09-29-2003, 01:40 PM

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!

fridays in the bróg · #57 (**permalink**) 10-19-2003, 04:30 AM

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.

Sualdam · #58 (**permalink**) 10-19-2003, 02:06 PM

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).

:)

fridays in the bróg · #59 (**permalink**) 10-19-2003, 04:13 PM

Mmmm... black screen, white text, flashing cursor... kinda reminds me of my old sinclair zx81 or was that the atari 800xl? ;-)

John