Just a quick request – if you go and use snippets of javascript code from this site, great, it’s what it’s there for.

Just please, please, don’t copy and paste my google analytics javascript into your pages as well, it kind of messes up my stats. Thanks in advance.

It has always annoyed me as a user when having to strain my eyesight and having to type weird letters or numbers in order to prove I am a human. The practice is known as ‘captcha’ and dates back a while now. Regretfully, nothing much has changed aside from the ability of the bots to OCR better – we still need to read some obtuse characters.

This is why I wrote a javascript mootools captcha class called hOOmanTest – making the whole ‘prove you are not a bot’ a lot easier to stomach. Regretfully, it has no degradation as it relies on drag and drop, but you can use reCaptcha inside your target div as the fallback and have the class apply an .empty() before populating it, providing the upper layer.

*edit*: I really do hope it helps somebody, here is the first site that uses it out there–in a quotation webform on the cleaning 4u site, click the free quote banner to view.