I don’t think I’m particularly impatient, so maybe someone should explain to the marketing types that insist on these things that, if you leave people looking at some ‘loading’ icon for more than a couple of seconds, no-one is going to hang around long enough to see your “high impact presentation”.

I don’t like sites where I have to cut and paste into a text editor to read things.

You don’t have to be Flash to be evil, though. I like to send companies screencaps of what their site looks like in Lynx. I particularly like Hancock Fabrics, who send[s] out HTML-only emails (yes, I’m signed up for “text-only”… it worked *once*) with the only non-embedded text a link that says “If you can’t read this, click here.” Follow that link, it goes to a web-based version of the exact same exclusively-image-with-no-labels-or-alts page, right down to the “If you can’t read this, click here” link as the only readable text. Usability ya us.