{"id":722,"date":"2007-11-25T22:14:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/722\/"},"modified":"2007-11-25T23:41:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T21:41:49","slug":"almost-nice-captcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/almost-nice-captcha\/","title":{"rendered":"(Almost) Nice Captcha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the best case scenario, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captcha\">captchas<\/a> annoy me. In most cases, I can&#39;t even read them properly and they make me fill twice some registration form. In some too frequent cases, when I fail a couple of times I get fed up and don&#39;t even register with the site they&#39;re supposed to protect (And in every single case, I am positive that there are better ways to keep robots away.)<\/p>\n<p>Today, when registering on <a href=\"http:\/\/lifestrea.ms\">lifestrea.ms<\/a> I stumbled upon the very first near-intelligent, almost unobstrusive, practically painless, captcha. What made it so? Beside being <em>not too unreadable<\/em>, it was simply validated real time via an Ajax server check, preventing an unwanted and frustrating form submission with incorrect field values. Why on Earth is this the first time I see something like this? I can swear I&#39;m not going to fill any more form with a captcha that doesn&#39;t comply to this real time validation principle.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/captcha-lifestream.gif\" alt=\"Lifestrea.ms\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 captcha\" class=\"imgcenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Compare this to <a href=\"http:\/\/quakenet.org\/\">Quakenet<\/a>&#39;s captcha: ugly beyond acceptable (note the professional looking unstyled link and the so pretty blue frame) and completely undecipherable. This is pathetic.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/quakenet-captcha-suckiest.gif\" alt=\"Quakenet Captcha: Worst ever.\" class=\"imgcenter\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the best case scenario, captchas annoy me. In most cases, I can&#39;t even read them properly and they make me fill twice some registration form. In some too frequent cases, when I fail a couple of times I get fed up and don&#39;t even register with the site they&#39;re supposed to protect (And in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[215,266,1,267,61],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-captcha","tag-lifestreams","tag-my-life","tag-quakenet","tag-sux0rz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}