Esme’s Lament

Complaining about companies that can’t handle email with unusual top level domain names.

Dad!

A passion for complaining

Why do developers seem to hate their users?

Low contrast

Who decided light gray text on a medium gray background was a good idea?

Hidden Links

Who decided that links should be hidden until the user mouses over them?

Tool Tips

Who decided that tool tips should be displayed under the mouse so they are covered by the mouse that triggered them?

Forms

Who decided that when a page doesn’t like one entry in a form, it should return a completely blank form requiring every field to be entered instead of just the one with an error?

Browsers

Who decided we needed functional differences between browsers causing pages to display a “Looks better in (specific) browser” message. I thought we got rid of that crap 20 years ago.

Subscriptions

We can’t blame this one on the programmers.