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If you have ever coded up websites, then you realize there are an awful lot of different things that you can do with them. You can make them one of thousands of different colors, alter the style, size and fonts of writing you use, and imbue your sites with all kinds of different images (both in the fore and in the background). However, there are some things which you can technically do, which you should completely leave alone unless you are putting up a “what not to do” example. One of the most prime, raging examples of things to avoid is to put in a fancy cursor. There is a reason why the standard cursor is so common — it does its job, and that is all.
But while the industry (and good taste) standard is to use the basic arrow cursor, some people just have to be fancy about it. And the problem with being fancy is, it is a seriously annoying distraction. One of the most garish of the alternative cursor types is to have the time and date (represented as a clock an inch wide) following your cursor around the screen. Try as you might, there is no shaking that thing. And it can prove to be somewhere between an impromptu minigame and a reason to punch your screen before you take the obvious course of action (clicking away from the site).
If you have ever been to one of the rare sites that still makes this goofy mistake, it can be very amusing to wonder what must have inspired such a bizarre use of time. Obviously, changing the cursor requires some code, which must either be devised independently or found and adapted to the site by its designer. So the person obviously put some level of thought into their choice — it just begs the question of what mind altering substances they might have been using while they did this thinking.
