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Things I wish websites would stop doing:

davidcho:

In no particular order.

• Resizing my browser. Listen guys, my browser window is set to a certain size for a reason, and you really have nothing to gain by making the window size as big as it can possibly be. If anything, it annoys me much more than it helps you fill my screen with your GREAT content. This is especially prevalent in over-styled fashion and art websites.

• Making every link open in a new window. Now, I’m aware that Radar does this too, and I only stand by it because Balk is so adament about the process (rarely does he care so much about anything! JK), but I mean really, it’s like that old saying: “If you really love something, you should let it go and if the feeling is mutual it will come back to you.” Meaning, listen, don’t be so jealous Website, just because I’m clicking another link doesn’t mean we’re trhough, I just want to enjoy the other stuff you’re showcasing. Biggest pet peeve? Websites opening new windows for links to their own content, that just doesn’t make any sense. If your tumblr does this, I implore you to change the settings.

• Disorganized tags. Radar’s actually guilty of this one too— no wonder we’re re-upping our website completely, but it really irks me when you click a tag for something and you can’t find all the news about that subject because the tags are inconsistent, in spelling or placement— it also bothers me when the character formatting of tags aren’t all the same (ex. Britney Spears, britney spears, Britney_spears), but that’s just moreso me being crazy. I feel like every backend or content management system should have some sort of auto-fill to keep this from happening.

Since I can tell from your “auto-fill” link you use Firefox (client=firefox-a), there are settings you can change to fix these first two issues.

• In your options, go to the “Content” section and click on the “Advanced…” button next to the “Enable JavaScript” checkbox.  From there uncheck the box for “Move or resize existing windows” (and anything else you’d like to prevent from happening).
• For preventing links from opening in a new window, just edit your browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction setting (I’ll trust you’re able to follow the instructions there).

That’s it.