{"id":619,"date":"2006-10-17T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T13:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=619"},"modified":"2006-10-17T08:23:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T13:23:31","slug":"classic-ui-design-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/10\/17\/classic-ui-design-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic UI Design Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiantechmob.com\/members.php#list\">Canadian Tech Mob<\/a>ster <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/bsimser\/archive\/2006\/10\/06\/Don_2700_t-belive-the-web_2C00_-it_2700_s-evil_2100_.aspx\">Bil Simser<\/a>, I discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egosurf.org\">EgoSurf<\/a>, a frivolous site that comes up with a number based on inbound links to your blog from elsewhere on the web and then presents a gauge to boost your ego and a pejorative listing in their recent searches on the main page to tell everyone you&#8217;re a putz.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s a clean-looking Web-Me-Too-Dot-Oh interface, they fall prey to one of the most egregiously boneheaded UI design faults I&#8217;ve ever seen.  If you enter your web address with the http:\/\/ protocol, the app recognizes that you have done so and refuses to submit, displaying in red the following message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPlease don&#8217;t include the http:\/\/ in domains\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;at which point, you are forced to manually navigate by tab or click back to the URL entry box and correct the entry yourself by removing http:\/\/ and then resubmit.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s absolutely no excuse for such stupidity.  This isn&#8217;t a bank transaction.  The program has already determined what&#8217;s wrong with the input.  Fix it and accept it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via fellow Canadian Tech Mobster Bil Simser, I discover EgoSurf, a frivolous site that comes up with a number based on inbound links to your blog from elsewhere on the web and then presents a gauge to boost your ego and a pejorative listing in their recent searches on the main page to tell everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajax","category-blather","category-development","category-javascript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}