• (cs) in reply to JimM
    JimM:
    People don't. Microsoft "Studio" products do. I'd recognised that id="hdnSecretCode" pattern anywhere: it's all over the apps I'm currently trying to make web standards compatible (e.g. by not having every form submission and link click fire a Javascript-managed "postback" event).
    When you add an item to your project, choose "HTML Page" rather than "Web Form". Then put HTML controls on it rather than server controls. Problem solved.
  • Rich (unregistered)

    I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned: in the 'never ever think about confirming' dialog, Yes is the default (as seen by the subtle outline) and will be selected on Return or Space.

  • JamesQMurphy (unregistered)

    What's even funnier about the CAPTCHA on the usawebsolutions site is the filenames of the graphics used to display the CAPTCHA. So, even without the hidden field you can scrape the code. For secret code MU9F4:

    Image Image Image Image Image

    (Note: The src tags are actually absolute; I snipped them for display purposes)

  • (cs)

    Whoever wrote the headline "Transcom Stores & Internet cafe's.." should be sacked.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to JimM
    JimM:
    People don't. Microsoft "Studio" products do. I'd recognised that id="hdnSecretCode" pattern anywhere: it's all over the apps I'm currently trying to make web standards compatible (e.g. by not having every form submission and link click fire a Javascript-managed "postback" event). I assume the three letter abbreviation of type-names is a Microsoft standard: obviously you can't work out what type an input is without an abbreviated form of the type in the actually id / variable name... It's driving me scatty </rant> - many apologies for taking out my work based frustrations on you all ;^)

    Lots of people have adopted Hungarian notation, sometimes for the better (not often, I'll admit). Even at their worst MS wouldn't have automagically written javascript for a CAPTCHA that tests the answer against a hidden field on the client side.

  • (cs)

    http://usawebsolutions.com/ only permits the use of Control and Alt.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is the shortdesc:

    <meta name="shortdesc" content="Belkin wireless networks set up in minutes to let you share your Internet connection, photos, music, and more. Now you can safely share files, printers, and hard drives from anywhere in your wireless range. Our included WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) and WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) security ensures the integrity of your information and accounts. 
<br><br><SCRIPT language='JavaScript'>
function openwindow()
{
	window.open('http://www.belkin.com/flash/networking/','mywindow','menubar=no,resizable=1,width=780,height=580,toolbar=no');
}
</SCRIPT>
<p>Belkin makes wireless networking simple.<br />
<A href='javascript: openwindow()'><b>View this demo</b></a>
to find out which wireless technology is best for you.&quot;&gt;</p>
</pre>
<p>(i am a spacer. i am not semantic)</p>
  • Harrow (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Cow-Herd
    Anonymous Cow-Herd:
    The directors of the firm hired to continue this comment after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.

    The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

    I was going to explain all this but I was sacked bef

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to Anyomous coward
    Anyomous coward:
    Perhaps Brad can explain how how normally scrolls using Ctrl, Alt or Select? 
     if(KeyID==17 || KeyID==18 || KeyID==93) {
     alert("Sorry, you do not have permission to press this key.");
     return false;
}
    Sounds as if someone's channeling the late Douglas Adams . . . and when I press it, a big light lights up saying "Do not press this button again!".
  • MooseBrains (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Yep, http://www.usawebsolutions.com/ do not disallow the arrow keys, as Anonymous Coward noted above (although it is still a total WTF to disallow the right mouse button and CTRL/ALT). However, I'm afraid the real WTF is Brad's theme - surely the worst theme I have ever seen in my life, ever. I mean seriously...
    Actually, having that theme and then not switching on font smoothing is really the really worst here.
  • (cs) in reply to Steve
    Steve:
    Anyomous coward:
    Perhaps Brad can explain how how normally scrolls using Ctrl, Alt or Select? 
     if(KeyID==17 || KeyID==18 || KeyID==93) {
     alert("Sorry, you do not have permission to press this key.");
     return false;
}
    Sounds as if someone's channeling the late Douglas Adams . . . and when I press it, a big light lights up saying "Do not press this button again!".

    TRWTF, I suppose, is that the message is so appalingly, mindbogglingly awful. I do not need anyone's, let alone the web page designer's, permission to press any key on my keyboard.

  • The Chub-Chubs are Coming!! (unregistered) in reply to Dan
    Dan:
    (sorry to all the IT-literate girls out there, I know you exist, I've just never met any of you).
    Huzzah! The cloaking devices are working...
  • P (unregistered)

    Not as bad as the WTF in some Belkin wireless routers I've seen. They validate the admin password using Javascript! Yep, you read that right - if you want to break into the router and don't know the password you can get it simply by viewing the page source!

  • Ian (unregistered) in reply to Rehevkor

    Those responsible for the sackings have now been sacked

  • (cs) in reply to jtl
    jtl:
    Claxon:
    Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

    This post has been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

    It was written by

    40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS

    6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS

    142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS

    14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA)

    REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON

    76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY

    Wot, no aardvarks?

    This hardly gives due deference to "Watchfire Bobby" and his admirable understanding of the way that state machines work. I can't tell you the number of times I've been burned by a computer system that hasn't quite tell you the number of times I've been burned by a computer system that hasn't quite tell you the number of times...

    Truly it is said:

    "Olé! Pero las llamas son peligrosas a su usted ve una llama donde hay gente nadando, usted grita:...¡CUIDADO! ¡LLAMA!"

  • Boggis (unregistered) in reply to UncleMidriff
    UncleMidriff:
    Dammit! I've got this website I need to build and I was just going to copy and paste all of USA Web Solutions' HTMLs, but they've made it ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE to do that now.

    Dammit dammit dammit. What am I going to do?!

    Their website was like the perfectest website ever...if I could have just copied and pasted their HTMLs, I would have been rich! RICH! Dammit!

    Here, copy and paste this awesome site instead:

    http://www.hims.co.za/

  • Ryuzaki (unregistered)

    Those who confirmed have been sacked....

    Those who did the sacking will also be sacked by the poop.

    Those who did the sacking and were sacked themselves were sacked on the grounds that they did not have permission to push the button...

    It's a vicious cycle!!!!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHH!

    ...still funnier than MFD.

  • (cs) in reply to real_aardvark
    real_aardvark:
    jtl:
    40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS 6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS 142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS 14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA) REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON 76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY
    Wot, no aardvarks?
    Worse yet: no Delhi Llama.
  • (cs) in reply to Ryuzaki
    Ryuzaki:
    Those who did the sacking will also be sacked by the poop.
    You're supposed to put the poop in the sack and set it on fire.
  • Yert (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that someone would set that for their firefox theme.

  • Wor (unregistered)

    Looking for backlink to thedailywtf.com from Belkin

    Nice ad marketing, Alex!

  • (cs) in reply to ClutchDude
    ClutchDude:
    Anyways else see "I am a spacer. I am not semantic" on the belkin source code too?
    Oh, yeah. That one had me and my co-workers howling.

    Non-semantic poop spacer.

  • Mr.'; Drop Database -- (unregistered) in reply to Pez
    Pez:
    I hope those responsible for writing "Cafes" as "Cafe's" have been sacked too. Cafe's what???!?!?
    I hope those responsible for writing "Cafés" as "Cafes" have been sacked, too.
  • JoAnne Smith (unregistered)

    I was going to write a comment, but then I was sacked.

  • Dracolith (unregistered)

    Workaround to try for a site where arrowkeys don't work, to fix broken behavior for a single page load and restore normal expected browser operation without disabling scripting entirely: Go to your browser title bar, type

    javascript:document.onkeydown = null; document.oncontextmenu = null; void 0; Press enter.

    Keep as a bookmark for some other sites that use similar foolishness. For good measure add a document.onmousepress = null; document.onkeypress = null;

    May not work for sites that add the handler using the DOM2 functions.

  • jim steichen (unregistered) in reply to rudraigh

    Hey, being a Spacer is an honorable profession. I was just talking to a Blasterman the other day about how us Spacers never get any respect.

  • Duke of New York (unregistered)
    <!-- I'm the møøse here -->
  • Walleye (unregistered) in reply to PoKuTe
    PoKuTe:
    Bob:
    Yep, http://www.usawebsolutions.com/ do not disallow the arrow keys, as Anonymous Coward noted above (although it is still a total WTF to disallow the right mouse button and CTRL/ALT). However, I'm afraid the real WTF is Brad's theme - surely the worst theme I have ever seen in my life, ever. I mean seriously...

    alt is used in firefox to do fine scrolling.

    Why, that's some mighty fine scrolling you're doing there, pardner.

  • Shaun B (unregistered)

    I seem to be able to scroll with my keyboard on usawebsolutions, but I can't use ctrl. Too bad if I want to open a new tab. They're trying to sell themselves as a professional web shop, but do stuff like that. I'm surprised they havne't used a script to disable right clicking. Or some awesome scrolling marquees...

  • Andreas (unregistered)

    Rick Olson clicked "yes" because "Danger" is his middle name.

    Really? I thought it was his last name.

    Btw, I think it's awesome that Rick Dangerous is contributing to TDWTF!

  • Mads Hvelplund (unregistered)

    TRWTF is the names of the other employees ... "Rob Hooton" & "Zsuzsanna Demeter" sound like super-hero aliases or the work of a humorous numeroligist.

  • EPE (unregistered)

    I wonder how can a web solutions company survive having such a WTF web site...

  • Jimmy (unregistered)

    The nice thing about disabling the Alt key also makes AltGr disable which means that their form on the "Contact" page is hard to use since you should enter your email and normally AltGr is required to type @ so you need to type your email in some external program, like notepad, and then copy it into place using the Edit menu...

    The company surely cannot want to be in contact with their customers.

    Captcha: populus, wasn't that the game where you played god? That was great!

  • bucket (unregistered) in reply to Dan
    Dan:
    From Vanessa Thomas: "Line 1110 of the source code just made my day."

    Oooh, a girl that isn't afraid to dive in and inspect the source! I have to say I'm a little excited... (sorry to all the IT-literate girls out there, I know you exist, I've just never met any of you).

    And with a pink theme. I think I'm in love.

  • random lurker (unregistered)

    A lot of commented html can be found in that belkin page. Includes links to Mice & Keyboards, holiday gifts and... "FreeSales_Feb_2008"... i'm starting to believe that this page is not database-backed.

  • (cs) in reply to Mads Hvelplund
    Mads Hvelplund:
    TRWTF is the names of the other employees ... "Rob Hooton" & "Zsuzsanna Demeter" sound like super-hero aliases or the work of a humorous numeroligist.
    "Zsuzsanna" is just "Suzi" after applying Hungarian notation.
  • (cs) in reply to Mitch
    Mitch:
    Fake Error'ds are so lame. Any idiot can create a message box in Photoshop or worse, VB, and send it in. There should be some verification process.
    [image]
  • holli (unregistered)

    Sorry, you do not have the permission to read this comment.

  • (cs) in reply to jim steichen
    jim steichen:
    Hey, being a Spacer is an honorable profession. I was just talking to a Blasterman the other day about how us Spacers never get any respect.

    Spacer, get you off the face Of Mother Earth and into space Dirty Spacer, do you hear?

  • JC (unregistered)

    Also in Belkin's source code:

    <!-- i am a spacer. i am not semantic. -->
  • JC (unregistered) in reply to JC

    Durr, I'm slow. I should've figured someone else would've noticed that already.

  • Yes (unregistered) in reply to Rich
    Rich:
    I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned: in the 'never ever think about confirming' dialog, Yes is the default (as seen by the subtle outline) and will be selected on Return or Space.
    Yes, it would be. It makes it so much easier for the developer to develop that BOUML of his.
  • AltGr (unregistered) in reply to Jimmy
    Jimmy:
    The nice thing about disabling the Alt key also makes AltGr disable which means that their form on the "Contact" page is hard to use since you should enter your email and normally AltGr is required to type @ so you need to type your email in some external program, like notepad, and then copy it into place using the Edit menu...

    The company surely cannot want to be in contact with their customers.

    Normally @ is Shift-2. No Alt key required. What is an AltGr key?

    Quite possibly, the company just does not want to be in contact with customers in foreign countries, where they have weird keys on their keyboards you can wreak who knows what havoc with.

  • OBloodyhell (unregistered) in reply to Claxon
    Claxon:
    Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

    The writer of the forum entry, hired to continue the forum entry creation after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.

    This forum entry has been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

  • (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    real_aardvark:
    jtl:
    40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS 6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS 142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS 14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA) REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON 76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY
    Wot, no aardvarks?
    Worse yet: no Delhi Llama.
    Wellll, that was just llame.
  • Tama (unregistered) in reply to AltGr

    The AltGr is a modified Alt key on French keyboards (and possibly other keyboards) that let the user type characters such as "@", "#", "|", ... They feature accentuated characters as counterparts to the numbers key.

  • (cs)

    trwtf on line 1099:

      [image]
  • (cs)

    Looks like usawebwtfs.com copied their ingenious copy protection scheme from this site: http://www.15seconds.com/howto/pg000916.htm

    I wonder how many other WTFs reside there...

  • bucket (unregistered)

    AltGr is a combination key of ctrl+alt. Mostly AltGr+KEY combinations can be made with CTRL+ALT+KEY as well. On a US-International keyboard the AltGr key is the Alt key to the right of the space bar. AltGr+5 is €, for example. See the Wikipedia for a more accurate explanation.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to AltGr
    Normally @ is Shift-2.

    No, normally @ is Shift-'

    Or perhaps on an international interweb, there is no "normally", which was the real point to take away from the post you 'corrected'.

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