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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megasycophant" data-source="post: 4328247" data-attributes="member: 69639">I'm running a few extensions, but nothing drastic and nothing that's given me grief in the past (although this doesn't eliminate it as a possiblity).Reporting it would have been the right thing to do (although I didn't, bad user).  On the one hand, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that I'm just a glitch due to some browser-specific idiosyncrasy.  Also, they make it clear the site is alpha.  On the other hand, we're not talking about some fancy AJAX-based, layered DHTML yadda yadda yadda.  What I had an issue with was the signup page, which best practices should dictate is clean and standards compliant.  This is what made it smell bad for me.  A less savvy user may have just thrown up his hands, proclaimed the site as non-functional (probably in a more colorful manner) and given up.  (At which point he becomes a non-user and can't give feedback about the site.)  I submit that it is entirely possible to create a registration process that will work in every major browser (we can even throw Opera, Safari, etc in there) unless the user's done something really bizarre/stupid on his end.  So my concern isn't so much that something "glitched" when I tried to register, but the lack of professionalism that is implied.OK, that horse is dead.  I don't want to give the impression that I think the whole thing just sucks.  It's just that after an earlier response to my posting, I wanted to elucidate rather than have everyone thinking I'm some curmudgeon.</blockquote>

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