Web - Usability - Humor
Friday, March 15, 2002[11:25:53 PM]
Note to Google: server-declared automatic refresh should be opt-in. If I read a web page, and leave the page diplayed in the browser, exactly *nothing* must happen. If you want to give me an option, fine. Let me choose how often it refreshes. (Goes for everyone, of course. Not just Google News.)
[11:16:20 PM]
Whacky Euros: <rant>In the U. S., the internet came along at just the point when computers were powerful enough to do interesting things with multimedia cd-roms. We all rushed for the internet, because you could make some money there, and it didn't matter that you weren't smart enough to make money in multimedia.
Those whacky Euros were internet-deprived for years longer. Instead, they went wild with multimedia CDs. (Not that many of them were smart enough to make any money at it.)
And that's the difference: Euros have their whacky pseudo multimedia websites that crash your browser every few minutes because they spent a few years making CDs. GIVE IT UP!
Look, the first rule is *do no harm*. Not only do we not care about your dumb design, we hate your stupid "experience*, and find it intolerable that you crash our browsers. It not only ruins our experience of your website, it subtracts value from the web. Got that? It's EVIL.
Whacky euros who don't care whether their stupid javascript crashes your browser are known disproportionately to use Mac OS < 9.1. On the Mac, you don't care if you crash someone's software. Mac software crashes all the time.</rant>
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[10:30:02 PM]
Google News: Google keeps doing the right thing. I notice they point to websites you can read without registering or paying.
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