Holy meat navigation
I know that Pope John Paul II has only been dead for a year now, and what I'm about to say could be interpreted as blasphemy, but did he get ripped off by his web designers or what? Take a look at his website and see for yourself.
First of all, you get the notorious mystery meat navigation. Or in this case, perhaps I should call it "holy meat" navigation instead. There's the Pope, the mountain with the cross and then there's a bunch of numbers, representing what must be significant years in his life. The idea behind this now dated (and still irritating) designers technique is to point your mouse over these links in order to supposedly get a visual confirmation that the link you're pointing to is in fact a link.
Internet Explorer users: Point your mouse over any of the years between 2001 and 2004 and watch what happens. Nice effect, no? I doubt it was deliberate though. If you get bored, try left-clicking on 2003 and drag your mouse ever so slightly. Wait a second or so and watch your browser crash.
Firefox/Mozilla users: Instead of the stupid blinking mouse over effects, you'll get multiple Javascript popups, every time you hover from year to year. And each one of the popups has to be closed.
And the slogan says "do not be afraid".
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