I love the use of the and tags, too.
is valid in HTML, and different from . It's actually being used correctly here.
It's valid, but it's one of those things that shows they're not a web developer. We don't use or anymore. That's what CSS is for.
Worst CAPTCHA Ever
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Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever
#92Well, it is a good way to tell computers and humans apart. Computers can read it, while humans can't. They should reject corectly filled in captchas.
I still loathe reCAPTCHA more than any other captcha out there. I've given up hopes of logging in on many occasions simply because of it. Looks like it's designed for not to be deciphered either by humans or computers.
http://i.imgur.com/YmNjN.png - best I've gotten from them recently.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
is valid in HTML, and different from . It's actually being used correctly here.
It's valid, but it's one of those things that shows they're not a web developer. We don't use or anymore. That's what CSS is for.
Nope, you're wrong. is actually still being used to differentiate between . is used for accessibility reasons (making the words enunciate with emphasis, while just makes the words bold by default). If you want to bold a part of the sentence without having emphasis, you'll need to use .
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still loathe reCAPTCHA more than any other captcha out there. I've given up hopes of logging in on many occasions simply because of it. Looks like it's designed for not to be deciphered either by humans or computers.
Fun tip: reCAPTCHA is actually two things, the "re" and the "CAPTCHA". In other words, one half is about testing that you're not a human, while the other half is a legitimately unknown word from a source of failed optical character recognition. You actually don't have to get the latter one anything close to right; and I think you're given the option of at least one typo in the actual CAPTCHA test. So when a CAPTCHA l…
> try doing the possible half and typing in "balls" for the other half
That doesn't help with the digitization of books. :)
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's like all these sites that requires you to enter your current password before you can change it, but deleting the entire account is just ticking a check box (at least twitter and dribbble worked this way back when I had accounts there). Some things we been doing for so long that we forget why we do them at all.
Or ones that make you confirm an e-mail address by entering it twice. The reason you confirm a password is because you can't see the password, and so you never know if you mistyped it. Confirming an e-mail address, in a normal text field, is just stupid busywork.
It is a protection against typos, because people are lazy and error-prone and it matters because getting it wrong means email delivery fails, whereas a misspelled name is no big deal.
So, elegantly, two different issues use the same simple solution.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> admittedly questions like "type someword in this box to prove you're not a spambot" rather than actual captchas, which I agree would be rather silly. This is not silly. This works extremely well for the low traffic forum I run. Since there are a huge number of phpbb3 forums out there, spammers have made spam bots specifically targeting the platform. If you make your forum epsilon different from the default then the…
Updated to be clearer about this. I meant that fake captchas like the one in the OP (which put HTML text on top of a confusing background image to make it harder to read) were silly, not simple question checks.
It is the same thing. For a low priority target, it is sufficient.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's valid, but it's one of those things that shows they're not a web developer. We don't use or anymore. That's what CSS is for.
Nope, you're wrong. is actually still being used to differentiate between . is used for accessibility reasons (making the words enunciate with emphasis, while just makes the words bold by default). If you want to bold a part of the sentence without having emphasis, you'll need to use .
What's the difference between and .
Em is for emphasis.
Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever
#98One odd quirk I've noticed with CAPTCHA's is that requesting a new one almost always returns one that is far more legible to discern. Is this by design?
Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's like all these sites that requires you to enter your current password before you can change it, but deleting the entire account is just ticking a check box (at least twitter and dribbble worked this way back when I had accounts there). Some things we been doing for so long that we forget why we do them at all.
Or ones that make you confirm an e-mail address by entering it twice. The reason you confirm a password is because you can't see the password, and so you never know if you mistyped it. Confirming an e-mail address, in a normal text field, is just stupid busywork.
It does seem that way when you're a skilled typist, but I recall reading an article about a year ago where they discovered that forcing the average user to re-enter their email significantly improved their rate of invalid emails (e.g. not detectable by a regex, like jhonsmith@gmail.com or johnsmith@gamil.com).
A feature like this should probably be considered based on the expected type of user vs. the convenience of signing up quickly. Non-technical users where there isn't a significant dropoff from the signup form => probably a good idea.
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#100Hey D&B developer here. I'm excited to see so much interest in my work. If the captcha is correct we categorize it as a bot and don't let it through. If the captcha is incorrect then it must be a human and we let them through.
Good news: we're hiring! We have day long meetings Mondays and Wednesdays, but other than that it's great.