Ramblings From Justin Penney

It was always frustrating when overly paranoid sites disabled right clicking thinking that tactic would protect their content from being copied. Now MySpace, the "blighted neighborhood" of social networking, has taken away the alt-left arrow in photo galleries. Instead of the familiar back action, in a MyLameSpace photo gallery pressing that hard-wired key combination goes to the previous image in the gallery.

Overriding well known, and relatively well standardized, keyboard shortcuts is a big FAIL in user interface design. Though MySpace has never had an abundance of thought in that department. I would look to MySpace to support the concept of "money can't make you pretty."

It didn't.

# posted by Justin @ 12:03 AM