Annoying habits of computer users: Clicking login instead of enter

[drum]

typing in the entire URL instead of typing google and hitting ctrl+enter

 

[speg]

you know what's worse? when your lame bank doesn't submit the form on enter. so you HAVE to click the login button. GRRR!!!!!!

 

[Kalmah]

Try developing a website for a retard who insists they should be able to type their username, hit enter, and then type in their password. Tab's not good enough.

I just would have made up some BS about internet standards and how that functionality is hard-coded into the interwebs then tell him to suck it.

 

[CraigRT]

I think its annoying when people have like 2-3, 20, doesn't matter, windows open, and they minimize each one to see their desktop to hit another icon or whatever... Show desktop button? I for one, use that button often.

 

[hanoverphist]

Can't say that bothers me. Though I've used sites where enter wouldn't work so you have to click. Dell comes to mind. Now that is annoying.

my bank is the same way, enter will activate the search field. i asked the web guys about it, they said it was a measure to help avoid bots from trying to access the log in scripts.

and it doesnt bug me in the least when people click the log in instead of hitting enter. just like it doesnt bother me that people will type the www. and the .com instead of hitting ctrl+enter. people do those things how its easiest for them, not for you.

 

[OutHouse]

There are plenty of apps that hitting enter won't work

 

[mjrpes3]

Speaking of login screens, I am glad amazon finally changed their default login where you had to click the 'yes I have am a registered user' in additional to username/password. If you entered both but didn't click the yes radio button, then it would prompt you with 'you entered username/password but did not click the yes button so we are going to presume you are an idiot'. So stupid.

 

[chitwood]

Anybody work with people who type via hunt-and-peck? My old supervisor typed like that. Awful. I think it should be a prerequisite for even getting a job in the IT field.

Also used to work with a woman who would lock her PC by holding ctrl, holding alt, hitting delete, then mousing over 'lock workstation' and clicking, instead of WinKey+L (pretty much a flick of the wrist)

 

[Deeko]

OK i will give you that.

Don't get me started on gas pumps that have removed the ability to pump themselves. Of course, I stuff the handle with my wallet or gas cap anyway, but DAMN.

I HATE this!! I go to a gas station that's fairly new, its like oo this is classy, and then I go to pump my gas and that level is missing. WEAK. Its not like the pumps don't shut themselves off. Hate them.

 

[hanoverphist]

Anybody work with people who type via hunt-and-peck? My old supervisor typed like that. Awful. I think it should be a prerequisite for even getting a job in the IT field.

i took a typing course in hs like everyone else, but i never could get used to the hand positions. so, i almost failed the course due to it, but proved i could match the wpm without the traditional typing style. ive been writing code since 7th grade so i know where all the keys are, and regardless of "hunting and pecking" i can type at 65ish wpm if im trying. at a forum post rate i type at about 45 wpm so its not all that bad. you dont have to know the wrist-breaking typing "correct" style to get the job done.

 

[hanoverphist]

The problem is what you call common sense isn't. You've simply been exposed to enough similarly configured programs to know generally where it's located. I realize your example was simplistic but, it points out a real problem. Most of the current generation of users, programmers and designers grew up with computers. My generation did not. I enjoy learning how things work and get very frustrated with younger folks who can't explain why something does what it does.

ive learned to deal with it very well. i have a lot of customers that are using a computer for the first time, as well as never having telemetry systems that will tell them in seconds all the info they used to spend hours driving around and collecting. it takes patience, and beyond that a great knowledge of how a program looks, not just how it works. ive walked people through some serious changes in graphics programs, troubleshooting communication errors as well as figuring out what they are looking at while on the phone. it doesnt take a genius, it just takes a patient person. i have an immense amount of patience apparently, ive been thanked for it on many occasions.

i do prefer when they tell me "go ahead and do it, we dont have time for me to try to remember all this shit" and i get to sit down and do the whole thing in a minute instead of a 30 minute explanation.

 

[Sumguy]

i took a typing course in hs like everyone else, but i never could get used to the hand positions. so, i almost failed the course due to it, but proved i could match the wpm without the traditional typing style. ive been writing code since 7th grade so i know where all the keys are, and regardless of "hunting and pecking" i can type at 65ish wpm if im trying. at a forum post rate i type at about 45 wpm so its not all that bad. you dont have to know the wrist-breaking typing "correct" style to get the job done.

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing :awe:

Came free with my first computer I think...learned to type at age 7.

Though I kinda want to see how you type...furious single-finger typing?

 

[hanoverphist]

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing :awe:

Came free with my first computer I think...learned to type at age 7.

Though I kinda want to see how you type...furious single-finger typing?

nah, i use 3 or 4 finners on each hand for it. i dont cross over much, and i use my ring finger for the pinky stuff, since i have bent pinkys. if you put your hands together to make a triangle with your thumbs and pointer finners, thats about the position i keep my hands. almost exactly the same as those "ergonomic" keyboards that were split and turned, but i never could get used to the layout of them. i have tried many different typing programs to learn how the traditionally type, but all of them hurt my wrists so bad its not even worth it. ive been doing it like this for so long i think im just stuck with it. but, it doesnt hinder me at all, so its all good. now, if i could just fix my keyboard so it doesnt double hit letters half the time id be doing well. damn dell

 

[rh71]

say there's a cancel and submit button on a form, cancel being first... both programmed to forward to a different page (not a typical submit). If you hit enter, what happens?