Mike,
For me, it does not add to or help the "experience". I understand how to use a computer and I want to control what,where and how I get files, save files, or do anything on it. I think everyone on this list has that, or more, computer knowledge. But for the other 98% of people who use a computer, but don't understand it, I think Canon and other sites like that are trying to make the sites easier for these people to use. My experience is that most people do not know how to properly save a file where they want it, do not even know what a .zip or .sit archive is. Have never taken the time to even try to understand the print dialog box. Have never heard of, or tried Google to find an answer for anything. Do not know how to navigate their files. I see these people More frustratingly their responses to this would be "I don't know, I'm not a computer geek". It's not "geek", it's basic skill for employment and life in this age. As to the heavy Flash and Javascript use, I find it's just in my way most of the time. Even though I surf for pleasure, I want to get to the information I want, not what the presenter wants me to get. That said, though, the Flash is frequently a marketing/advertising tool. It attracts the surfers eye to a particular area on the screen. In moderate use use I think it's fine. JoeG -----Original Message----- From: Michael G. Henders <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 7:51 pm Subject: [Papermodels II 37173] Semi-OT: Website complications -- why?!? I've just read through the thread about Canon's newly- released car models, and the subsequent discussion of various ways of working around their site design to get to the model files. And I was struck (again) by just how *wrong* the situation is when one has to go to these lengths to avoid something that was intended (I presume!!) to make it easier in some way to access the files. Or it was intended to 'improve the user experience' in some way. Or something. So I'm asking, does anyone actually find this stuff useful, or find that it makes the site that much more aesthetically pleasing, or improves your experience with a site significantly in some way? And, if so, in what way? Alternately, if you have ever designed a site that was loaded with Javascript and/or Flash, etc., why did you do it that way, as opposed to some kind of more basic HTML arrangement? Incidentally, I do mean this as a serious question, not a rhetorical whine; I'm genuinely curious about this. :) Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
