Jan 23
Is it just me, or are these CAPTCHAs getting a bit ridiculous?
That’s a screenshot of what I see when I try to use gizmosms.com via Firefox. Or via my BlackBerry, which is where I really wanted to use it from.
Tagged: CAPTCHA, gizmo, gizmo project, SMS, wtf
January 23rd, 2008 at 21:45 -0700
Does it work with anything? It looks completely impenetrable to me, too.
January 23rd, 2008 at 22:23 -0700
When you remove the black bars (a trivial operation for any computer) it looks like this:
Still unreadable.
January 23rd, 2008 at 22:25 -0700
My comment was supposed to contain
this image but your blogging software removed it. And there was no preview for me to discover that it would do this.
January 23rd, 2008 at 22:27 -0700
So it’s not just the captchas that have hard-to-use interfaces. Seriously, preview is really important.
January 24th, 2008 at 02:10 -0700
Ah, they’ve finally invented a CAPTCHA that computers can read, but humans cannot.
Excellent.
January 24th, 2008 at 19:06 -0700
Gareth, I don’t write PHP, but if you’re volunteering I’m sure the maintainers of Wordpress would love some code to add preview functionality.
January 24th, 2008 at 20:13 -0700
What about the Live Comment Preview plugin?
January 24th, 2008 at 20:14 -0700
Or the Filosofo Comments Preview plugin?
January 24th, 2008 at 21:27 -0700
The live comment preview doesn’t work, but the Filosofo one at least seems to do something. If you’re reading this, it worked.
January 25th, 2008 at 13:21 -0700
It works. Thank you.