<story><title>Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5</title><url>http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moe</author><text>I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons?&lt;p&gt;I tried a few times but the experience has always been so terrible and inconsistent that I&apos;ve long reverted to simply sharing the good old copy/paste way.</text></item><item><author>cscheid</author><text>Aside from this being about design and not HTML5, is anyone else not surprised they didn&apos;t include &quot;550 social +1, like, tweet, twat buttons&quot;?&lt;p&gt;Look at that website: there&apos;s a social banner, a social footer, a social sidebar, animated gifs for ads. Make that 15 lousy web design trends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>&amp;#62; I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons?&lt;p&gt;The suppliers of said social buttons do; every time you see one while you&apos;re logged into FB / G+ / Twitter, a hit of you visiting that site is registered at said parties, and they can all, thanks to the prevalence of these sharing buttons, track your internet usage.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5</title><url>http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moe</author><text>I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons?&lt;p&gt;I tried a few times but the experience has always been so terrible and inconsistent that I&apos;ve long reverted to simply sharing the good old copy/paste way.</text></item><item><author>cscheid</author><text>Aside from this being about design and not HTML5, is anyone else not surprised they didn&apos;t include &quot;550 social +1, like, tweet, twat buttons&quot;?&lt;p&gt;Look at that website: there&apos;s a social banner, a social footer, a social sidebar, animated gifs for ads. Make that 15 lousy web design trends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arscan</author><text>Whether or not you actually click on them, you are &quot;using&quot; them.  Last I checked (admittedly, a couple of years ago), if you&apos;ve used that browser to log into facebook and haven&apos;t cleared your cookies (or configured / installed a privacy add-ons), facebook is able to associate that page view with your account through the like button on that page.  They bypass the 3rd party cookie mechanisms that are suppose to be in place to prevent this.&lt;p&gt;If anybody knows if this is has changed, please chime in. I&apos;d love to know.&lt;p&gt;edit: whoops, looks like somebody made the same comment before me, so i assume its still something they do: &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369214&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369214&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>