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Volkan.
Volkan.
11.04.2005
If you don't care about the user, you'll be a loser!
What I mean is when developing your web sites, or having developed your site (either e-commorce, or personal, or corporate it doesn't matter), focus on usability
not on how "eye candy" your site has become with the new fancy DHTML grid control you added.
I'd like to share a usability/accessibility disaster I've coincided recently on a very well known and "eye candy" e-commerce site:
This is also an answer to Tom's question on who really turns off javascript:
Yes I sometimes need to turn the js off, when the site owners/developers restrict my interaction with the page and call it "security". (as a side note, howerver, Tom is mainly seeking for users who intentionally browse the entire site without javascript, which is something different than my case here)
Well, here is a recent example:
I signed in to that fancy site to buy some stuff; there was a textarea to fill in some details, but the site did not allow me to copy and paste text into it. Moreover I was not able to cut, drag move what I had written: Because they had overridden the default mousemove and mousedown actions (which on a textarea will help select some portion of the text by dragging it you know)
Anyway, I was on my stubborn day and continued my attempts. I could do it without a mouse, I thought. By selecting the text by using shift-right arrow combinations from keyboard. But whooops: it was disabled as well. I cannot tell how annoying it was.
So I had only one choice left: Turn the ducking javascript off!
After I was done with that form page, I turned it back on.
And after all those hassle, I composed an angry feed-back message to the site's admin (which I had to enter in a god damn textarea again - js enabled), asking him whether they have ever "heard about" the terms usability, accessibility and interface design.
That is one reason, for not using js; to give a name, user-unaware silly sites.
And the second reason, errm, I am one of those "developers doing stuff that normal
people don't."
And one third reason, related to the second one, is I sometimes turn it off to bypass so called "security" restrictions (no I'm not a hacker - but examining security flaws is a piece of my work).
Cheers for now!
not on how "eye candy" your site has become with the new fancy DHTML grid control you added.
I'd like to share a usability/accessibility disaster I've coincided recently on a very well known and "eye candy" e-commerce site:
This is also an answer to Tom's question on who really turns off javascript:
Yes I sometimes need to turn the js off, when the site owners/developers restrict my interaction with the page and call it "security". (as a side note, howerver, Tom is mainly seeking for users who intentionally browse the entire site without javascript, which is something different than my case here)
Well, here is a recent example:
I signed in to that fancy site to buy some stuff; there was a textarea to fill in some details, but the site did not allow me to copy and paste text into it. Moreover I was not able to cut, drag move what I had written: Because they had overridden the default mousemove and mousedown actions (which on a textarea will help select some portion of the text by dragging it you know)
Anyway, I was on my stubborn day and continued my attempts. I could do it without a mouse, I thought. By selecting the text by using shift-right arrow combinations from keyboard. But whooops: it was disabled as well. I cannot tell how annoying it was.
So I had only one choice left: Turn the ducking javascript off!
After I was done with that form page, I turned it back on.
And after all those hassle, I composed an angry feed-back message to the site's admin (which I had to enter in a god damn textarea again - js enabled), asking him whether they have ever "heard about" the terms usability, accessibility and interface design.
That is one reason, for not using js; to give a name, user-unaware silly sites.
And the second reason, errm, I am one of those "developers doing stuff that normal
people don't."
And one third reason, related to the second one, is I sometimes turn it off to bypass so called "security" restrictions (no I'm not a hacker - but examining security flaws is a piece of my work).
Cheers for now!
