Roll over and make way for bad UI (part II)
Published by steve June 2nd, 2005 in Technology
Ken Norton finds the use of sliders in Yahoo’s new Mindset offering intolerable.
Even more intolerable is the introduction of “roll over” ads on some My Yahoo pages. Roll over ads are essentially popups created by Java script instead of HTML popup windows.
They share the annoying characteristics of popups, namely they appear without permission and obscure what you are actually trying to read.
Maybe the Yahoo Toolbar group can collaborate with the Yahoo banner ad group and extend toolbar’s Pop-up Blocker feature to eliminate roll over ads.