Andrew Wiley wrote: > Web applications have zero-install But they trade it in for registration, with those awful, awful CAPTCHAs.
They don't just distinguish between humans and computers (sometimes). They also distinguish between flawless humans with perfect vision and expensive monitors and real life humans who can't see the poorly contrasting colors or can't distinguish letters with a font size of 8 pixels. Some have letters right on top of each other.... what order do they want it? Gah. It invariably takes me two or three attempts to get those stupid things. Thankfully, the popular Re-Captcha ones are among the easiest to read, but that doesn't help when someone still uses the green on red with purple stripes and tiny font variety. It's been a while since I saw the Google captcha, but I remember it as being nearly impossible. The worst part is they come back post-registration too! Vile.