Comments on: Putting Users First

By: Chem

Chem — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:42:06 +0000

Thanks for making this post it’s real good one.

By: Portland Movers

Portland Movers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:22:30 +0000

I normally don’t really mind the captchas but sometimes they are literally unreadable and I have to try a few times to get it right. Usually they let you refresh the image if you can’t read it, and that’s a good feature, but sometimes that’s not possible and I just have to keep trying over and over.

By: gurgle

gurgle — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:54:28 +0000

I can’t believe some of the Captcha codes on some major websites – Digg springs to mind – they are simply unreadable and often don’t have audio files to help you! I can understand it on rubbish sites and random blogs, but to have a poor captcha that requires a few guesses really puts people off commenting in my experience. The Captcha add-on (I think the company is called Captcha?) is great though, it gives you audio and clear visible words from random e-books/websites. It should be uniform across all sites…

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:15:21 +0000

And then, the bad sites remove your birth date, email address and other important data that must be retyped.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:14:50 +0000

Yes, and you can do it by right-clicking and selecting open in new window. Unfortunately, there is no “open in same window” to overwrite target=”_blank”. Someone needs to write a Firefox plugin that ignores that.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:13:40 +0000

That one is nice! I guess you were the only one with that last name. That’s what my college does for professors’ addresses. One of my teachers was named Casey Blanton and her email is blantoc@daytonastate.edu.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:12:35 +0000

Yes, but those URLs are typed out and put into print often. Just like with phones. We have speed-dial, but lots of people don’t use it, just as many people still type in URLs.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:11:34 +0000

At least Yahoo lets you get a new CAPTCHA easily now.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:11:03 +0000

I use it sometimes on images as some people get confused when linked to a JPEG, but otherwise, no.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:08:39 +0000

Me too; I hate those forums where you have to register just to view a profile or download a file.