May 04
A nice analyst friend pinged me about the NYTimes site and how if you double click on *any* word on the page a popup (not an inline div) comes along querying for that word.
That seems a little bizarre. It appears to be happening in the code for searching on an alt click. I wonder if they really wanted this feature? ;)
May 4th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Feature or bug, it’s annoying as hell…
May 4th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Looks to be a feature, and a very annoying one at that!
May 5th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I thought it was just me… It’s a feature that’s so broad, it became a bug. This would make sense if you highlighted a word, and a context menu-item provided this feature.
You don’t have to study Human Computer Interaction to know some users indiscriminately click on the screen while they read a document.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Serious bug. I constantly double-click on large documents to highlight where I am before I take a break from moving or do a rapid scroll. This website is BROKEN with a capital B in my opinion!