Height of stupidity in web page design
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I just thought would share the web page of grivances redressal of a private insurance provider in India (https://www.birlasunlife.com/BirlaSunLife/Insurance/BSLI_MP/Forms/ComplaintForm_id.aspx[^]). 1) First assuming your age is 30, you need to click 30x12 times the left arrow on the datepicker to reach the month of your birth to choose the calendar. 2) The captcha does not refresh. 3) Every dropdown has a serverside autopostback. What do you think of such a webpage? 1) A gesture of management to discourage complaints from customers? 2) Or by a programmer who begs code in Lounge/Soapbox forums and vomits gibberish code accompanied by lack of (stringent) testing/qa because of stingy/greedy management to invest!
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!1. I can align controls better than that and I am not even a web developer. 2. Selecting option that I am not a customer, makes almost no difference to entries I need to make. 3. Why do you need my address if I need to make a complain? 4. Date picker: really!? 5. If I select no for existing customer, why am I able to select claim related options? I can go on and on. If you are dealing with these guys, please do not use their online transactions. Better still, find some other provider.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
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while its still a crappy site, you do not have to click 30 x 12 to get age 30 on the calender. click directly on the year and it will drop down and let you select a year. however I have seen that behavior before and its not apparent to the average user most likely.
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gavindon wrote:
you do not have to click 30 x 12 to get age 30 on the calender. click directly on the year and it will drop down and let you select a year.
Oh. Thanks for that. But there is no visual indicator or cue that those are smart elements. They appear as plain vanilla labels for me. I used both Chrome and Firefox. Let me grab a Windows box and see how it renders in IE.
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1. I can align controls better than that and I am not even a web developer. 2. Selecting option that I am not a customer, makes almost no difference to entries I need to make. 3. Why do you need my address if I need to make a complain? 4. Date picker: really!? 5. If I select no for existing customer, why am I able to select claim related options? I can go on and on. If you are dealing with these guys, please do not use their online transactions. Better still, find some other provider.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
d@nish wrote:
3. Why do you need my address if I need to make a complain?
To spam. :)
d@nish wrote:
5. If I select no for existing customer, why am I able to select claim related options?
May be anticipating a customer relationship in the future and hence anticipating a distant claim. Kind of lo...oo...oo..ng vision? :-D
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d@nish wrote:
3. Why do you need my address if I need to make a complain?
To spam. :)
d@nish wrote:
5. If I select no for existing customer, why am I able to select claim related options?
May be anticipating a customer relationship in the future and hence anticipating a distant claim. Kind of lo...oo...oo..ng vision? :-D
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!I am still playing with it. Can you please raise a request on my behalf? It must state exactly this: "Do you know that proper developers exist? They are not same as unicorns." You can give my email if you want. It is "a@s.com". :)
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
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I am still playing with it. Can you please raise a request on my behalf? It must state exactly this: "Do you know that proper developers exist? They are not same as unicorns." You can give my email if you want. It is "a@s.com". :)
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
:)
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:)
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1. I can align controls better than that and I am not even a web developer. 2. Selecting option that I am not a customer, makes almost no difference to entries I need to make. 3. Why do you need my address if I need to make a complain? 4. Date picker: really!? 5. If I select no for existing customer, why am I able to select claim related options? I can go on and on. If you are dealing with these guys, please do not use their online transactions. Better still, find some other provider.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
6. I wonder what the pop-up was that IE blocked for me.
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6. I wonder what the pop-up was that IE blocked for me.
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I just thought would share the web page of grivances redressal of a private insurance provider in India (https://www.birlasunlife.com/BirlaSunLife/Insurance/BSLI_MP/Forms/ComplaintForm_id.aspx[^]). 1) First assuming your age is 30, you need to click 30x12 times the left arrow on the datepicker to reach the month of your birth to choose the calendar. 2) The captcha does not refresh. 3) Every dropdown has a serverside autopostback. What do you think of such a webpage? 1) A gesture of management to discourage complaints from customers? 2) Or by a programmer who begs code in Lounge/Soapbox forums and vomits gibberish code accompanied by lack of (stringent) testing/qa because of stingy/greedy management to invest!
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Obviously written by someone who has had a claim denied and they're still angry about it. :^)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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0. I wonder why you are using IE.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
I'm a web developer. I use all the major browsers. Except for Opera. And Safari. And... OK, I only really use IE and Chrome (and Firefox, sparingly).
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Do you think they have ever heard of SQL injection or Cross site scripting?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
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I'm a web developer. I use all the major browsers. Except for Opera. And Safari. And... OK, I only really use IE and Chrome (and Firefox, sparingly).
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Oh man what you are saying. Even an entry level junior enginners know about SQL Injection. Did you forget when you are from ?
Ranjan.D
Ranjan.D wrote:
Even an entry level junior enginners know about SQL Injection.
Not true.
Ranjan.D wrote:
Did you forget when you are from ?
What do you mean?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
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Oh you poor sod. I hope your clients are not using IE6.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
I think the lowest we support now is IE7 (I mostly let the designers worry about that).
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Ranjan.D wrote:
Even an entry level junior enginners know about SQL Injection.
Not true.
Ranjan.D wrote:
Did you forget when you are from ?
What do you mean?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
I knew that's true because even I'm from India and a Web developer, I have seen peoples from all levels. It's not a rocket science or something un heard about SQL Injection. That's pretty basic and everyone knows about that. Obviously being a developer one should be knowing it very well :)
Ranjan.D
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Oh man what you are saying. Even an entry level junior enginners know about SQL Injection. Did you forget when you are from ?
Ranjan.D
Ranjan.D wrote:
Even an entry level junior enginners know about SQL Injection.
You haven't visited Q&A lately, have you... :)
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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I'm a web developer. I use all the major browsers. Except for Opera. And Safari. And... OK, I only really use IE and Chrome (and Firefox, sparingly).
I prefer Chrome for web surfing and Firefox for app development and debugging. IE is akin a torrent application for me coming under a blanket embargo.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep! -
I knew that's true because even I'm from India and a Web developer, I have seen peoples from all levels. It's not a rocket science or something un heard about SQL Injection. That's pretty basic and everyone knows about that. Obviously being a developer one should be knowing it very well :)
Ranjan.D
I still don't have answer to my question. Anyways, this isn't a fairy tale. Wake up. There are plenty of "developers" out there who have no clue about anything related to development.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
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I just thought would share the web page of grivances redressal of a private insurance provider in India (https://www.birlasunlife.com/BirlaSunLife/Insurance/BSLI_MP/Forms/ComplaintForm_id.aspx[^]). 1) First assuming your age is 30, you need to click 30x12 times the left arrow on the datepicker to reach the month of your birth to choose the calendar. 2) The captcha does not refresh. 3) Every dropdown has a serverside autopostback. What do you think of such a webpage? 1) A gesture of management to discourage complaints from customers? 2) Or by a programmer who begs code in Lounge/Soapbox forums and vomits gibberish code accompanied by lack of (stringent) testing/qa because of stingy/greedy management to invest!
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Don't know if I would call it stupid so much a unprofessional. It says that this was done for a mom and pop company. At least they don't have 50 different colors.
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It's a standard datepicker - just click on the calender to open it, click on the year (2013) and hold the "up" arrow down until you get to you birth year. You don't have to scroll the month sideways until you reach the 1980s! :laugh: It's rather fuggly, and it looks like it was put together by the bosses son after his (unsuccessful) first course ion software. And it probably was...
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