(Yay! I get to put on my professional hat!) >From a user experience standpoint, the old sites were bloated, which made the load times outrageous even on a high-bandwidth tube. The ESPN autoplay feature was criminal: you never have a site that automatically plays music or video.
>From a larger sense, as mobile Web explodes, websites in general are going to look for sites that load quickly in those environments as well as on a computer. The expectation (with both the iPhone/iPod Touch and Google Android platform) is that you should be able to have the same level of experience as a user on a computer. Those who do that right first will enjoy a huge advantage. A *lot* of sites now seem to think that using the traditional "mobile" WAP site will still work. As more and more people get phones that offer an HTML browser, that dog will retire to pasture. Joe Hass On Dec 16, 5:33 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ...'cause frankly, it was too loaded, not only for viewers, but > > advertisers (NYT): > > >http://snurl.com/8i2cd > > > Actual page:http://beta.espn.go.com/ > > Good. I stopped relying on espn.com some time ago because it was > overwhelming. And I found that a video clip of SportsCenter seemed to > play automatically whether I clicked on it or not. > > Two threads (CNN and ESPN) today seem to indicate a move towards more > simplicity, I hope this is a media trend. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" 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/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
