[sajidnizami]

People who were fired for being flash developers came back and designed the same stuff with Ajax/JavaScript.

We're still stuck with badly designed sites. At times you can just use a simple hyperlink to open a document and don't need a JavaScripted window that breaks apart on mobile browsers with small screen size.

[ghaff]

The "funny" thing is that restaurants are among the worst offenders for some reason for sticking all sorts of gratuitous pop-ups and weird sliding animations etc. And this for sites that, probably more than most, are going to be accessed by someone on a phone who just wants an address or to take a look at a menu.

[larzang]

Well, restaurants and small businesses in general usually have websites that come about through the joining of customers who have no understanding of ux or the trade-offs that come with going for the showiest thing possible, and creators who are offsetting their low prices by pushing through jobs as quickly as possible and don't have time to go through the delicate dance of telling the customer that their desires are unreasonable and awful.