Web nuisances are getting more nuisiancy.

[elfs]

Note to all web producers out there: if your Flash app messes with my volume settings and suddenly and without warning turns up the music I'm currently listening to VERY LOUD and inflicts pain, you will have lost my business.

CBS's news site did that to me this morning.

My computer is not a television and this is not the Outer Limits. You do not control the audio, or the video, nor all I see and hear. I do.

Comments

[elfs.livejournal.com]

That's the problem. The sound was optional. The flash app came up and said "Click to watch." It didn't play anything, it just set my own audio to maximum volume. Ouch!

[kengr]

Ok. That makes even less sense than the pages that shrink my browser window!