Bad Web Sites Can Cause "Mouse Rage"

alphadogg writes "Badly designed Web sites may have negative effects on a user's immune, cardiovascular, and nervous systems, a study says. The study of 2,500 users was commissioned by Rackspace Managed Hosting and published by the UK's Social Issues Research Centre. It found that five technology flaws in Web sites may have deleterious effects." How long before the first class action suit in the U.S. over bad Web site design?

Re:How long before the first class action suit in

[Anonymous Coward]

Didn't we already have the blind sue over something similar to this?

Bump.

Cease and Desist

[kihjin]

How long before the first class action suit in the U.S. over bad Web site design?

Depends on how long it takes my Cease and Desist letter to arrive at CmdrTaco's house. Given the USPS, it might not arrive for weeks!

Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects?

[dnc253]

"Okay, what causes Developer Rage?"

Two words: Internet Explorer

Angle relief.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Badly designed Web sites may have negative effects on a user's immune, cardiovascular, and nervous systems, a study says. "

So that's why Taco redesigned Slashdot. I didn't know he cared.

Perfect excuse for not coming in to work tomorrow!

[antifoidulus]

"Sorry boss, but slashdot's ugly IT color scheme weakened my immune system and now I'm sick so I can't come in today"

Re:How long before the first class action suit in

[omeomi]

I wonder how hard it would be to design a website that was so awful [aol.com] that it actually caused physical illness...

Bad websites

[dnc253]

Oh man, nothing gets me madder then websites that are doing very simple things, but don't work! I bet I've caused more damage throwin' my mouse around than any of those stupid Wii users. Gotta find me a nice sturdy wrist starp for my mouse.

Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects?

[shoolz]

Well... this IE only site provided me with much enjoyment...

http://drafzal.com/old/ [drafzal.com].

This long...

[xyankee]

How long before the first class action suit in the U.S. over bad Web site design?

As soon as those Wii owners return to their computers...

Re:Cease and Desist

[grammar fascist]

What I want to know is whether I can sue Logitech after my mouse goes flying through my monitor (or friend's face) in the course of using it correctly as instructed by the owner's manual.

Re:How long before the first class action suit in

[Ixitar]

I'm not blind, you insensitive clod! I'm visionally challenged!

What is a company executive doing on this site?

Re:Yes, "Mouse Rage Syndrome"

[TapeCutter]

"Ah, but if it's a 'syndrome', you can blame someone for it."

Not always, but you can get great drugs to treat it! Anger is a bad diagnosis from the blame/drugs point of view, if your "angry" they blame you, and then treat it by forcing you to hang out with a group of angry strangers twice a week.

Re:Websites?! Try Operating Systems!

[pembo13]

You tell the truth. I have considered bagging myself a few IE and Windows devs myself...but the whole killing is a crime thing works against that.

Re:Ironic

[pilgrim23]

don't blame EETimes. Those poor folks are living a hand to mouse existence....

Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects?

[Asztal_]

You know something's wrong when you open the site in a background tab and you can hear your usually-silent hard drives grinding away trying to get away from the page via suicide...

Re:How long before the first class action suit in

[_tognus]

What's so funny about that? I don't see it.

Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects?

[Explodicle]

That site crashed my browser!
(Granted, I'm running Firefox 2 on Kubuntu, which crashes every time I load a page with HTML in it.)

Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects?

[Anonymous Coward]

I prefer many of the pages on this popular hang out [myspace.com] for my examples of truly painful web "design".

Re:Perfect excuse for not coming in to work tomorr

[elrous0]

Craigslist is for amateurs. Real thrill-junkies will spend an entire day surfing profiles at myspace, with their speakers turned up, using only profiles returned after a search for "my boyfriend can be SOOOOO annoying".

I'm told it's tougher than summitting Everest.

-Eric

Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects?

[Ontology42]

Mr. Smith was found dead at his cubicle this morning, apparently the years of IT work, poor tech net design and bad eating habits have cought up to him. The corner and police arrive on the scene.
Corner "looks like a class a1 coronary, hell i can even see the hemorrhaging in his eyes."

Detective "Well I wouldn't rule out foul play!", "Why is that?" asks the corner.

Well for starters there's no wii controller embedded anywhere, and this is the first time I've seen a logitech in that many pieces next to his right hand!

Corner turns to the Detective, "And the copious amounts of Coffee, Red-bull and cheezies had nothing to do with it?" (pointing to the clutter in the cube)
"Well known occupational hazards for a man in his line of work, no I for one am blameing the recent redsign of slash dot!" the detective states, "Actually wait let's check his browser cache?", "Right just as i though, it was the default vista page that killed him"....
Corner turns to the detective "So then, you got a copy of vista yet?", "Why?" he replies. "Well we could get in on the next class action against Microsoft, remember Sony?"....

Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe he means IE and gaping orifice are redundant, did ya think about that, asshat?

Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects?

['nother poster]

Nope, sure didn't. Thanks for the reach around. Um, I mean thanks for the help there Sparky. Couldn't have done it without you.