Joel's Technology Hit List
Monday Morning Rant, 26 March, 2012
- Skeumorphism in design
- Adobe Flash
- Adobe Air
- The concept of "write once, deploy everywhere" code (web standards being the exception, of course)
- QR codes
- Comic Sans and Marker Felt
- WPTouch WordPress plugin. Just don't.
- Websites serving up a "get our app!" splash page to iOS users prior to serving the requested page
- Websites refusing to serve page requests and insisting you get their app
- Websites who serve up a mobile version, but when you switch to the "full version" it forwards you to the homepage
- Websites serving up mobile versions only to iPads
- Using Powerpoint to make documents that should have been made in Word/Pages/Plain Text.
- Using Powerpoint to send images as if it were a zip file.
- Having www. in front of your domain name.
I will add to this list over time. If you have any further suggestions, please let me know.