456 Berea St. has a good post about web annoyances for 2006. I don't agree with all of his points, but I like the one about fixed width and flexible layouts.
So what are your biggest web annoyances for this year?
I'll give it some thought and post back later. Social bookmarking spam/other garbage has got to be at the top of my list.
Megan
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demonhale posted this at 02:57 — 21st December 2006.
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andy206uk posted this at 22:24 — 21st December 2006.
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I'm with you on that one - I've been getting loads of trackback spam lately!
Also... what a let down IE7 was. MS had the potential to do something good and make everyone happy, but instead they just released a 'me too' product, with a crappy interface and didn't address the important issues.
I'm also disappointed about all the buzz words floating around lately. They seem to be everywhere; tagging, web 2.0, AJAX etc etc etc - and everyone thinking that their sites are web 2.0 just because they've used a few gradients and added a tag cloud. (often when a tag cloud isn't even needed!).
Andyk
Blog of a Web Designer
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Busy posted this at 09:47 — 21st December 2006.
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The demise of tables and NS4.*
Oh wait, the NS bit was 2005
Web standards - the following or rather not following from browsers
W3C - talk of reintroducing HTML 5
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andy206uk posted this at 23:30 — 21st December 2006.
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Oh... two more things:
Sites that still require you be running a specific browser - it's the 21st century people! There's really no need!
Browsers still identifying themselves as a Mozilla browser when they aren't!
Of course... the browser manufacturers won't fix the second problem until the web developers fix the first one!
Andyk
Blog of a Web Designer
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cloudybutnice posted this at 11:23 — 22nd December 2006.
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Spam, spam ,spam.
People crashing our forums with drugs advertising and pornographic material. Everyday it appears from somewhere and every day I delete it.
Websites with horizontal scrolling.
When my computer suddenly decides "can't find server".
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Megan posted this at 14:12 — 22nd December 2006.
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Oooh, Web 2.0! That's got to be my biggest annoyance of the year. Everything is Web 2.0. IMDB does a little design update and somebody says they're Web 2.0 now. Hello ??? That site is no different than it has been since the late-90's. Ad a reflection and a graident, and you've got a Web 2.0 logo! Grrrr....
Megan
My web design blog