OT: web design

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Brian K. White (Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:39:26 -0500):

> Another reason why it's sensible to avoid putting uncessary junk in your
> web pages.
[...]
> Dumb thing #1 that people do who disregard common sense of simplicity in
> web design:
> When you follow a link, something about the new page makes the back
> button unuseable. You just keep getting the new page over and over
[...]

Many browsers allow you to click and hold the "back" button, and it
will display a list of previous pages.  You'll see that the first one
is the redirect page, and the second "back" page is the one you came
to.  By clicking on that one, you can get around this poor design
"feature" of the site, and actually go back.  (Personally, I wouldn't
put it past several sites to have done this on purpose.)

> The answer there is, once you have been burned by this once, you start
> being paranoid and every time you want to follow a link but value the
> current page nough to worry about losing it, you right-click on the
> link and choose open in new window or in new tab (for those browsers
> that have tabs).
[...]

"My browser is better than your browser!"  :-)

Opera can be configured to open a new tab when you middle-click the link.

> This brings us to Dumb thing #2:
> Use of flash.
[...]
> The flash ads can not be right-clicked on in order to open in new
> window. When you right-click on them, you only get a menu from the
> flash player with a few options and help/about for the flash pugin
[...]
> Great. Guess which sites I never went to?

Guess which ads I never even see?  :-)

[...]
> Require instead proof that it causes no direct or indirect hassles
> anywhere.

Or, at least have a link at the top for a non-gizmo page it possible.
(If not, then have a "requires Gizmo 7.3 or later" message that appears
if you don't have it, rather than giving you a blank screen.)

> It's pretty hard to prove a negative like that, so generally, you will
> not be using any such new things if you followed that way.
> This is exactly as it should be!

:-)

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