why do retail sites still do this?

[lauralh]

design annoyances

1) Popup windows
2) resizing the main window
3) popup windows that you can't resize
4) flash that needs to "load" before you can navigate the page
5) animation that replays every time you go to the site

and finally I get super-annoyed with 100% flash sites, so you can't link to a product itself.

edit: why the fuck did everyone comment on this and not alien abductions?

Comments

[skipbreakfast.livejournal.com]

You don't need Flash to have content management and control.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Depends on whether you're developing for IE or Firefox. IE will let a developer deny the user access to controls, FF won't - especially if the user has specifically reconfigured FF to disallow invasive changes.

But if you design everything in a Flash object, even in FF the only thing you can do outside the dev's explicit design is resize the entire object.

[skipbreakfast.livejournal.com]

Are you saying it's a security risk?

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Am I saying what is a security risk...?

[skipbreakfast.livejournal.com]

FF users being able to play with stuff?

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Good god no, it's the other way around. The ability of a web *developer* to deny control to a web *user* is a security risk.

[toastednut.livejournal.com]

flash dev != ui designer.