Another case of - it disappeared yesterday ;> Appologies if anybody gets this twice.
And the angels did sing and LUSERS did fall from flights of fantasy mid quack. The words of wisdom had been revealed and all revelled in their light! and etc. Basically this is one of my pet peeves. When writing RIA's the first question that should be asked is 'does this crap add anything to my site?' Will having 82 videos that take two hours to load and 413 layers of centralised tree structure navigation chains bring more customers to your site then it pisses off into leaving and going to find somebodies site that just bloody loads? I've seen some TRULY awesome RIA's out there. I wonder how many of them put through as much traffic as microsoft or google... Or make as many sales as Amazon or Ebay? RIA's are a great idea. But its a new sort of spoke in the wheel, its not a whole new fucking wheel. Trying to use it to reinvent the wheel and do things that existing methodology already does better is just annoying. People basically like the internet. Thats why so damn many of them use it. If it was broken? Well join the dots. There wouldn't be nearly as many of us employed. Since it aint broken, it dun need to be pulled apart and fixed. The structure in place is basically good and viable. WWW style successes aren't achieved by something that isn't right. What might be good for it thought, is a tune up, some new tools to tweak it a bit. Light weight, additions, extra functionality, increased interactivity, new tools, not a whole new wheel. The site listed? Its sexy, sure. Would I use it? hell no. Its too painfully slow, and I'm sitting on a 100mb pipe thats not all that loaded, and I've written half of this rant since opening it again to nitpick some specifics. stuffit, I'm over it, whatever's on that page? I don't care. As a user, I want it up, I wan't it now, I wan't it to work first time and every time. I don't want to sit waiting for an application to load.... Ahh finally.. Its loaded, was it worth the wait? not really.. There's alot of stuff on that page, but none of it is particularly interesting. Most of it looks suspiciously like stuff thats in HTML on the MSN home page, or a hundred other shonky portals, that load in a 10th of the time, and while they don't look quite as nice? aren't overtly annoying. There's nothing on that page that would convince me to use it again, or spend any money there. There are lots of things that would convince me to go elsewhere. Whats justifiying the money that went into developing it? Apart from pointless nefarious narcissistic ego feeding. </rant> "Ryan Sabir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > HM> Very nice interface - one day ALL of the web will be like this! > > I, for one, will choose that day to give up web development and become > a professional nerf ball fighter. > > To me there's waaay too much happenning on that page, its hard to tell > what's a button and what's a heading, and the (unchangeable) font size is > way too small for all except that Cyclops dude from the X-Men. > > Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against RIA's... but just because > you can doesn't always mean you should... > > seeya! > > ----------------------- > Ryan Sabir > Newgency Pty Ltd > 2a Broughton St > Paddington 2021 > Sydney, Australia > Ph (02) 9331 2133 > Fax (02) 9331 5199 > Mobile: 0411 512 454 > http://www.newgency.com/index.cfm?referer=rysig > > > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
