Joerg wrote:
>In last months, I watched JS
>disappearing from online shopping systems at the sites of some big
>German companies. If this is a new trend, it seems to good to be true.
>Is there similiar thing in other countries?
Yes! Maybe http://www.useit.com is having an impact, instead of
being sneered at.
There are still clueless outfits, like the UK Govt, who are getting
into bed with M$ and hoping to sell the dirty sheets to the rest of
the world -- e-governement that can only be accessed by M$IE5+.
And the major UK chemist (drugstore) photo service:
http://www.bootsphoto.com
They give you different "faces" to make a complaint with, but
then give only this response:
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As you are having difficulty viewing your images please check that
your computer meets the minimum specifications laid out below.
Pentium DX 75 processor
32Mb of RAM
4Mb Graphics card
Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 5
<snipped>
==================================================================
Enough! No reply to this:
I don't consider any organisation should dictate what software
I use, and will be forced to take my business elsewhere.
Mature e-commerce businesses make sure their site operation
is as browser-independent as possible. They are interested in
making sales, not in having a designer incorporate tricks which
add little but inconvenience many.
Surely a simpler site would operate more quickly and be less
expensive to commission? Have you done any testing with real
customers?
I hope you will seriously reconsider this design and why you
have been led to adopt it.
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One rising problem is the vast amount of embedded CSS. To my
mind, embedded CSS should only be used where the CSS is simple
or the page is likely to be saved, but I'm finding enough CSS
to stall a browser and take up 75% of the page content -- every
damn page at those sites.
Regards,
Jake
