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edw519's simple rules for reading on the internet: That's a Back Button (to the cadence of "That's a Paddlin'" from "The Simpsons") http://www.youtube.com/wa
by edw519 15y ago
edw519's simple rules for reading on the internet:
That's a Back Button
(to the cadence of "That's a Paddlin'" from "The Simpsons")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFgR0m-9FmM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFgR0m-9FmM
Login button below the fold? That's a back button.
Animated ads? That's a back button.
Shifting content? That's a back button.
More than 2 pages? That's a back button.
Need to be logged in to Facebook. That's a back button.
Unexpected video? That's a back button.
Unexpected sound? That's a back button.
Overlapping ads & text in my browser? That's a back button.
Overlapping ads & text at 800 x 600? That's a back button.
No horizontal scroll bar to get beyond right fold? That's a back button.
Flash? That's a back button.
pdf? That's a back button.
Slideshow? Oooh, you better believe that's a back button.
Freezes my computer? That's a battery removal.
It's a wonder I find anything readable any more.
- bambax 15y ago> More than 2 pages? That's a back button. Well, that should be a "Read Later" button (or, at the very least, looking for a "Print" button).
- tincholio 15y agoI think he referred to the forced pagination for increased ad prints, not the actual length of the article (although of course sometimes the "printer friendly" view solves this, in which case looking for the "Print" button can be helpful).
- AndrewDucker 15y agoIf I see an article split over multiple pages I hit the "Read Later" button which then punts it into ReadItLater, which concatenates them all into one page.
- randallsquared 15y agoNo horizontal scroll bar at 800 x 600? That's a back button. Did you mean "Horizontal scroll bar at 800 x 600? That's a back button?" I'm not sure how content fitting nicely in 800px is a drawback.
- edw519 15y agoChanged from "No horizontal scroll bar at 800 x 600?" to "No horizontal scroll bar to get beyond right fold?" Do people even realize that some of their content becomes unavailable on certain browsers and at certain resolutions. Thanks.
- billswift 15y agoMy eyes are going a bit as I get older, so I have been enlarging print so I can read it more comfortably (with the amount I read, that is important). I am really tired of web designers that still can't automatically resize text areas. Some pages go off the right side of my 21 inch screen with only moderate enlargement (I only use 1.25 diopter reading glasses for textbooks, I feel sorry for people with serious eye problems trying to read most pages).
- einhverfr 15y agoCertainly by those standards, the Youtube link you supplied is a back button. I wonder if you do find anything readable outside of HN these days ;-)
- jmilloy 15y agoI don't read youtube videos.
- delinka 15y agoI'm pretty certain that YouTube links are not "unexpected video." Perhaps it's flash, but I think the original means an entirely flash-navigated site.
- TeMPOraL 15y agoBut the new YouTube ads that play before video are unexpected. And, for me, quite often a back button. After 6 seconds of watching the ad I usually don't care about the video anymore :/ (call it short attention span).
- murki 15y agoYou can skip them after 5 seconds.
- TeMPOraL 15y agoSome of them. Others you can't, and you have to wait full 30 seconds. Given that what I want to see is usually 3-5 minute long video, it's pretty significant (10-30%) time.
- tomjen3 15y agoI haven't seen them, but if I do that's going to be the last time I go to youtube for a very long time.
- ladon86 15y agoPublishers' solution to your problem: Disable the back button.
- pyre 15y agoMore like this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/theater/images/clockwork_big.jpg http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/theater/ima...
- pjscott 15y agoI tend to open things in new tabs. Closing the tab works. If things get annoying enough, other people can adopt my habits on this.
- hollerith 15y agoOr switch to a browser that doesnt allow a website to disable your back button.
- its_so_on 15y agoBreak my back button? That's a, uh...