Rants

[claidheamhmor]

Here are my rants for today.

Stupid website designers
Not just public website designers, but intranet app site designers too. The people who make websites that require ActiveX, so won't run in any browser except IE. Or the ones who make websites that are un-navigable from a mobile device. Or the ones who check for specific versions of browsers - like Nedbank, whose internet banking wouldn't work on IE 9 until last week, when IE 9 had been out for a couple of months already. There was no reason it shouldn't have worked, except that they checked the version numbers.

I'm especially annoyed by car manufacturers' websites. The vast majority are flashy, graphics heavy, and completely devoid of any useful technical information, especially for older models.

Serves 4
You get all sorts of pre-made foods etc. that say "Serves 4" or "Serves 2". Even my coffee pot is marked up to 10 cups. Yet all of these servings must have been calibrated for anorexic midgets. I have yet to see a "serves 4" that would have actually fed 4 adults adequately. My coffee maker makes 5 1/2 cups. Maybe it would make 10 espresso cups.

Comments

[suburban-bliss.livejournal.com]

Same here. In an average family there are usually 4 people: dad, mom and 2 kids but pre-packaged meals usually have 3 of an item, so to give each person 1 of an item I have to buy 2 packs. It really gets my goat. It doesn't matter if you have fewer people because then you have leftovers!

[prof818.livejournal.com]

There is one stupid website you left off. Those that can't redirect to the mobile site correctly, esp. when clicking on an article or something. Also, those that automatically redirect you to the mobile site, even though your phone is set in "desktop" mode.

[claidheamhmor]

Oh, absolutely. Or those sites (hello, IOL) that think that because you're using a browser they don't recognise (like Opera) that you *must* be surfing from a cellphone.

[polymale.livejournal.com]

Do websites still do that? I am amazed. I mean, I knew about Flash heavy websites, but I almost always avoid those.

Serving sizes are totally ridiculous. I'm sure they know it too, and it gets used as a marketing tool to try and make their products' calorie (or fat, or...) content seem much less than it is to the shopper in a hurry. "cups" though, are a little different, they're a specific mL size in a non-metric system, unlike "servings" which could be anything at all almost.

[claidheamhmor]

Servings are what I give to unhungry small children. Not adult-sized, in other words.

[claidheamhmor]

Cup

I am so going to measure the volume of my coffee pot and cups tonight.

[jadedflame.livejournal.com]

Maybe because everything is "Made in China" nowerdays, they "Cup" size they are refering to is a Japanese Cup??

[claidheamhmor]

Might be...

[claidheamhmor]

I measured my coffee pot. Each "cup" is 140ml, which is tiny.

[windrider-09.livejournal.com]

The old fashioned coffee cups, you know the ones you get from your grandmother's china service are about that size. I just can't believe that they're still using that measurement. I suppose 10 cups sounds better than 4 mugs.

Motorcar websites are ridiculous. Nedbank is perfectly usable;e with Firefox btw, just ignore the IE version nonsense

[claidheamhmor]

Hah. Even one of those came to about 160ml...

[ang_o.livejournal.com]

I despise those Flash websites where I have to sit through ...page is loading...page is loading...for each page. I don't usually bother.

Our coffee pot is labelled 12 cups and makes about 4 mugs of coffee. I agree with polymale about the difference between cups and servings.

[claidheamhmor]

One site I hate is for one of our local movie chains: the Flash is quite slick, but doesn't work from a mobile phone...and their mobile site is broken. The Flash makes it harder to block ads too.

[jadedflame.livejournal.com]

I can't STAND ActiveX - I supported a web-based app here, and it was running using ActiveX, and if someone did the smallest thing to their PC, the site would not work / load and gave LOADS of errors - very much infuriating to support!

[claidheamhmor]

Yeah, terribly annoying; it seems very unstable.