RR (15,11): I hate IVLE

Every time I have to use it for whatever reason I ask myself: "do I really need to use this festering piece of shit?". It's not even a particularly good question, since the answer is more like "no, if you had been more proactive, but the answer is now yes, ergo you suck".

Yeah it's my fault. What the shit. IVLE destroys (by that I mean completely ignores) basic design principles. See file names there? Clicking on them doesn't do shit. You're supposed to click on that weird shit icon thing, the one with the red coloured arrow pointing downwards at what the hell is that thing?! Major common sense disrupter. In case you forgot. It's also an egregious abuse of HTML tables. Oh and just to add to my previous example. (I'm so annoyed that I'm not even coherent anymore.) There's another icon there. "Indicating" the file type. With icons from 1996. I'm not making this up. Those strangely nostalgic hand-dithered pixel art icons were by Microsoft, made for and bundled with Office 97. Clicking on them… doesn't do anything either! They're useless too!

And then the download links use JS. What the hell. It's already particularly bad that the only way to get anything done with it efficiently is to enable JS. Login could be done via document.forms[0].submit(), but once in, the only alternative is to dig through the heavily obfuscated code and decipher it. Now, I have JS Deobfuscator (made by Wladimir Palant, the Adblock Plus guy), but using it only beautifies the code. It doesn't help much. (Yes I know people disassembling binaries have an even harder time^{[citation needed]}, but I don't care.) You can't use download managers like dTa! to get all the files at once. Without waiting for the shit slow server to actually compress the files (and not cache the result how intelligent) and then send them to you. In fact, the server doesn't cache or directly serve any file. You must pass through hoops, nay, obstacle courses, in order to actually download a file. −1 for usability, −1 for accessibility, −1 for niceness, −1 for trying to be Web 2.0-ish and failing, −1 for not actually realising any of the aforementioned points. Want to protect files? Restrict read permissions. Simple shit, and people don't know that.

Then again, they're probably using IIS on Windows instead of a superior web server like Apache or nginx or whatever on a proper Unix-like OS. −1 for using Windows, and −1 for using IIS, −1 for not using free software, −1 for making the users not use free software. Rage rage rage. Time to derail Windows. Windows sucks. I don't even have to invoke KOSA logic to demonstrate that. It. Just. Does. And I'm biased, I can admit that, but it sucks. OS X is superior. GNU/Linux is superior. Oh, and −1 for not realising Windows sucks. I can bet their software won't port readily to Apache or something, so another −1 for lock-in to Microsoft, and another −1 for lock-in in general, −1 for being affiliated to Microsoft, −1 for having the above points deducted. And also, −1 for not being cross-platform.

But I haven't even dug into their CSS and HTML issues! But I'm not going to. Those are pretty dry already. There's not much new that could come out of that. I spot Windows 98/Me/2000-style icons. I'm not sure which because the only one I actually used was 2000, but yeah. Decade-old icons that have already been phased out, and they're still using them. −1 for being retards.

Abuse of gradients to achieve some kind of "cool" effect, −1. Vista-styled lightboxes, −1. Layout that looks wrong under Gecko 1.9.3a1pre, −7 (because it happens at least 7 times). Not including Tetris as an easter egg, −1. Abuse of DHTML, −1. Script obfuscation, −1. Obvious copyright infringement, −1. Abuse of HTML tags, −1. Generic lousiness, −1. Rage induced in me, priceless.

For everything else, not even MasterCard works. There's just too much of this shit to uncover. Way too much.