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I started reading it, and then there was a nagging interstitial, begging for my email address so that I could be sent spam. Closing that garbage, various butto

I started reading it, and then there was a nagging interstitial, begging for my email address so that I could be sent spam. Closing that garbage, various buttons and unnecessary margin bits ("Click here to see more!" [bounce] [bounce] [bounce]...) kept jittering for my attention. So, I closed the tab. I have no idea who is responsible for the design of fermatslibrary.com, but they should feel ashamed of what they've done. This is one of the most infuriatingly infantile designs I've ever seen. The old "punch the monkey!" ads have nothing on this.

selestify 11y ago
Weird, I didn't experience any of that when I visited it.
- jackmaney 11y ago
  I don't know what to tell you, except that when I viewed the page, there was a reasonably well-formatted PDF in the center of the screen surrounded by unnecessary, fiddly, bouncing bullshit "click on me!" buttons.
  - mgdo 11y ago
    I think these are simply the paper annotations. It's not that obtrusive.
    - jackmaney 11y ago
      There are sites that allow for annotations and manage to do so without bouncing, distracting "click on me!" buttons. Medium does a great job of this. I have no idea what the site's creator was thinking when they decided not to emulate the established, non-distracting examples instead of doing what they did.
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GnarfGnarf 11y ago
I saw nothing other than a PNG image with the proof. Nothing in the margins, no buttons, nada. Could it have anything to do with installing AdBLock yesterday?
- jackmaney 11y ago
  I use uBlock, yes, but that shouldn't automatically add margins, a header bar, etc, around a PDF. That makes absolutely no sense.
walrus 11y ago
I'm seeing the same thing: http://i.imgur.com/vYgP0Dj.png http://i.imgur.com/vYgP0Dj.png. It's bad taste in design, but I don't think they should "feel ashamed of what they've done". For what it's worth, you can delete annoying parts of a page using the developer console in Firefox or Chrom(e|ium).

selestify 11y ago

Weird, I didn't experience any of that when I visited it.

jackmaney 11y ago
I don't know what to tell you, except that when I viewed the page, there was a reasonably well-formatted PDF in the center of the screen surrounded by unnecessary, fiddly, bouncing bullshit "click on me!" buttons.
- mgdo 11y ago
  I think these are simply the paper annotations. It's not that obtrusive.
  - jackmaney 11y ago
    There are sites that allow for annotations and manage to do so without bouncing, distracting "click on me!" buttons. Medium does a great job of this. I have no idea what the site's creator was thinking when they decided not to emulate the established, non-distracting examples instead of doing what they did.

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GnarfGnarf 11y ago

I saw nothing other than a PNG image with the proof. Nothing in the margins, no buttons, nada. Could it have anything to do with installing AdBLock yesterday?

jackmaney 11y ago
I use uBlock, yes, but that shouldn't automatically add margins, a header bar, etc, around a PDF. That makes absolutely no sense.

walrus 11y ago

I'm seeing the same thing: http://i.imgur.com/vYgP0Dj.png http://i.imgur.com/vYgP0Dj.png. It's bad taste in design, but I don't think they should "feel ashamed of what they've done". For what it's worth, you can delete annoying parts of a page using the developer console in Firefox or Chrom(e|ium).