Somewhere, deep within Wells Fargo HQ, there was a depressed developer in a windowless office that died a little inside when asked to make this.
Establishing secure connection
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#12It closes the tab when I click "inspect element". How does it detect that?
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#13It closes the tab when I click "inspect element". How does it detect that?
it's the window.onblur handler. If you select "inspect element" the browser opens a new window for the developer tools and the previous window loses the focus, triggering the handler.
It also happens if you load the page then open a new tab. The previous tab will lose focus and close itself.
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#14Reminds me of this interesting reddit discussion:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uc6qy/reddit_toda...
And the corresponding HN discussion that followed:
(Apple's iOS is "deceptively fast") http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047032
In this case, we have security instead of speed. That's not to say it isn't secure anyway.
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#15Somewhere, deep within Wells Fargo HQ, there was a depressed developer in a windowless office that died a little inside when asked to make this.
Or he was asked "please make this site feel secure"
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#16This is one of those things that is done by people going "We need our customers to 'feel secure'". I get the rationale, but is there actually any data that suggests this gives that actual feeling? That users "feel" more secure? Or are more trusting of the site? Or is this just cargo-cult UX?
edit: I've seen this on too many financial apps to think it's an isolated incident. It's clearly a "thing" in financial apps (TurboTax.com does it all the time; I see it on my Bank app, lots of mobile apps, etc.)
There's gotta be a reason, even if it's wrong.
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#17This is ridiculous
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#18hfs - your account has been dead for > 200 days
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#19So, it's actually possible to update a dynamically served gif to provide real progress updates. If that's what they were doing, I'd wonder why they did that rather than use js hooks. But this is just a silly static image. What if the server takes longer than the image to load?
Then it'll just get stuck at 100% until it's done. It's not like users have never experienced this, progress bars have never been that accurate. Probably thanks to Windows, which did a pretty good job at educating users not to expect an accurate progress bar at all.
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#20That's kind of silly.
But as a Wells Fargo customer, I've never seen it while using their website, and I use the site to check my accounts and transfer money between accounts once or twice a week.