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Re:Groupon Sliding by julian37 on Friday April 20, 2012 @07:45PM (#3870283)
Off-topic, but does anybody else find the Groupon stock "chart" on that page infuriating?! It looks as if it's interactive, suggesting that you can use the control at the top to zoom in on a particular time range, or use the slider at the bottom to go back in time. And the "hand" cursor on mouse-over suggests that you can interact with it. But clicking anywhere just serves to reload the page! Maybe it's just me but it took me two full-page reloads to realize I was being conned.

@thenextweb.com: please embed the real, functional widget; or, failing that, embed a chart that doesn't look like a widget. If you really, really must embed a functional-looking but non-functional picture of a widget, at least link it to the real widget.

And if for some reason none of the above is possible, and you really have to include a picture of something that looks like you can interact with it, don't make it clickable because doing so will confuse the hell out of people like me.

Re:Groupon Sliding by tatsuke95 on Friday April 20, 2012 @08:23PM (#3870368)
>"But clicking anywhere just serves to reload the page! Maybe it's just me but it took me two full-page reloads to realize I was being conned."

Yeah, it looks like they just took a screen shot of the Google Finance chart:

https://www.google.ca/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:GRPN

Kind of weird.

Re:Groupon Sliding by edzme on Friday April 20, 2012 @09:28PM (#3870524)
No i think it's fine. After you click it once you'll know. Takes about 3 seconds.
Re:Groupon Sliding by Zhenya on Friday April 20, 2012 @08:30PM (#3870388)
Agreed! Very unprofessional to take screenshots with interactive components and leave them there.

I spent a few seconds trying to drag the dang scroll bar!

Re:Groupon Sliding by Gormo on Friday April 20, 2012 @08:38PM (#3870410)
It's a screenshot from Google Finance. They didn't bother to crop out the UI controls.
Re:Groupon Sliding by MaysonL on Friday April 20, 2012 @09:43PM (#3870569)
And they ignored the "©2012 Google" at the bottom of the page...