Monday, March 9, 2009

Hiding headlines in slideshows and mouseovers is marbles

This is slowly taking over the internet, and I don't like it. That is, the stupid slide show type things on web pages that make you move your mouse over various pictures in order to read the headlines and/or insist on playing a little slideshow of the headlines on a few second delay. Why can't I just see everything at once?

Slate and emusic switched to it not long ago, as did a few others. Emusic's might be the worst of all, though we've already been over that. MSN's (that's the Mountaineer Sports Network, not that other weirdo site) is pretty terrible too, as the slideshow moves faster than human reaction time. Now Pitchfork is the latest to go this route, and they've managed to do both the stupid mouseover thing and the stupid slideshow thing. Great work guys.

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