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From: Michael Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:03:31 +1000
Subject: Olympics web site - anyone know anything about how it's built?
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Now that the Olympics are under way, I've been looking at the web site at
http://www.athens2004.com/ and it's pretty impressive. Does anyone know
anything about what sort of beast powers it? Anything about how it's made
up?
I know they've got huge sums of sponsors' money to spend on it, and all the
input for scores comes from laptops at the venues, input by the officials
and made available to other officials, media and the web site. The input
for details of the athletes etc comes from their home country Olympic
Committees through their own local clubs I guess, but for such a huge site,
with such huge traffic, there must be a really big donk driving it. The
site itself is pretty quiet about how it's built, but does anyone know
anything about it? Or know where there's a description of how it's built?
I see that they've learned from the fiasco over the Sydney2000 site, where a
disabled user sued the Sydney2000 Organising Committee just before the
games started because he couldn't easily access the site using his screen
reader, and they had to scramble with only a few weeks to go and recode the
site. This site is not perfect in accessible terms, but its a light-year
ahead of the Sydney2000 one. For example, all font sizes on this site are
relative so users can use their own preferences to set character size.
(Ctrl-wheel for windows users)
Anyway it's a matter of curiosity and interest rather than professional
need. But I'd love to know more about what's under the hood of this site.
Anyone know?
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com________________________________
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