New Promise Novel York Times Wall Street Magazine Websites Are User-Unfriendly

The New York Times as well as The Wall Street Journal Online are probably among the almost visited websites on the planet merely are they user-friendly ? Some instances:

The New York Times: When you lot are reading an article on NYTimes as well as occur to double click a unmarried give-and-take or a sentence, NYTimes website volition automatically opened upwardly the lexicon Definition of that word(s) from Answers.com inwards a pop-up window - definitely non a proficient user sense (see screenshot). 

search box or copy-paste text as web clippings in their cyberspace scrapbooks - they are non interested inwards the pregnant of the word. 

There should at to the lowest degree last an slow selection to plough off the lexicon characteristic of NYTimes.

The Wall Street Journal Online: When you lot choose roughly text on a Wall Street Journal spider web page as well as correct click, WSJ volition automatically demo links to related articles inwards a bang-up pop-up window - non as well as thence unfriendly merely you lot convey to larn a fellow member of WSJ.com as well as login inwards club to plough off that feature.

And this auto-search characteristic may last a occupation for those who are browsing through a tedious dial-up connectedness [see screenshot of WSJ.com below amongst search inwards progress]

 

The Wall Street Journal Online: A lot of websites link to external pages amongst the target="_blank" attribute that volition opened upwardly hyperlinks inwards novel browser windows or tabs. Perfect merely the WSJ spider web pages give-up the ghost a pace farther when linking to external website content.

Here's a code snippet from a WSJ spider web page which links to Desktop Tower Defense website:

<a href="JAVASCRIPT:OpenWin('http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/',..);void('')">Desktop Tower Defense</a>

Such form of linking volition peradventure deny whatsoever Google Juice from the trusted WSJ to the linked website because the link is hidden inwards Javascript which cannot last parsed past times search engine bots.

And from the perspective of "human" readers, external websites volition ever opened upwardly inwards a novel browser window - you lot cannot correct click the website link as well as opened upwardly it inwards a novel tab. Hence fifty-fifty inwards the historic catamenia of tabbed browsers, you lot may destination upwardly having multiple browser windows on your desktop originating from a unmarried WSJ spider web page.