5 ms·
Putting "control in the hands of designers" gave us flashing ads, pop-up ads, pop-under ads, pop-up ads again but floating, etc. Also Flash intros, disabling th
by acheron 13y ago
Putting "control in the hands of designers" gave us flashing ads, pop-up ads, pop-under ads, pop-up ads again but floating, etc. Also Flash intros, disabling the back button, "infinite scroll", and enough other anti-patterns that I would run out of fingers and toes counting them all. I have recently returned to using NoScript on my desktop browser, because ABP and Ghostery together still did not provide enough defense versus web designers.
There is no way this "feature" is not going to somehow be abused to annoy users.
- eddieroger 13y agoThat was putting control in the hands of the marketers, not necessarily designers.
- __DarkBlue 13y agoCertainly true of the ad's. But, IMHO, it's designers who seem to love the infinite scrolling and other gimmickry.