More grumbling about lousy coding

Just now I tried to leave a comment at one of the sites in my RSS reader. Initially, I was happy to see that it is one of those sites that try to let you authenticate with whatever you want: Typepad, MovableType, OpenID, Facebook - pretty much anything. Great, I thought, I'll use OpenID.

The authentication failed. Wonderful - I tried Facebook. That failed too. One more time, how about Google Blogger? Nope..

Does anybody bother to TEST their code? I *know* OpenID did what it is supposed to do - the problem is back with the PHP/Javascript at the original site. That's where the disconnect is.

Of course it's possible - all too possible - that it's my fault for not using a Microsoft browser on a Microsoft operating system. Let me just say this: I don't want to leave a comment badly enough to start up VMware - especially as it might not be the actual issue.

Arrgh. Does the site have any "Contact" info so that I can at least notify them of this foolishness? Of course not. Nor would I expect that to help - they are plainly using a off-the-rack blogging system. 99% of the time the people using those things don't know a thing about what lies beneath.

Sometimes I do pine for the days when a certain amount of computing competence was necessary to even get access to the vast Internet. It would be a lot less vast Internet were that still the case, but then again conversations would be much more intelligent.

Too much to ask for, so I can only close with "No comment". Not because I didn't wish to comment, but because your software doesn't work.