On 30/10/2010 13:27, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
> Again, it seems your designers did phancy just because they could, and
> probably think it's cool.  Web designers seem to rarely consider what it'=
s
> like to be on the other end of their creations.  Most of what they think =
is
> cool, other people think is annoying.
>

I think as web pages go, this is pretty normal and not too fancy. I=20
liked the "slides" as they save space on the page. With the issue of=20
"moving stuff", the only thing "moving" is the slides changing, and as=20
long as there isn't much else going on (ads, other flashing things etc)=20
I don't find it distracting at all.
I guess it would be nice to be able to support every browser out there,=20
but 99% of people are *probably* going to be using something better than=20
IE6. Of course it depends on what you are trying to achieve, you could=20
restrict your pages to plain HTML and possibly a small picture or two=20
with no active content.

Sometimes I wish things wouldn't move so quickly and I could stick with=20
stuff which works/I know, so I see where Olin is going - I changed from=20
the latest IE to Chrome (much faster and simpler - performs the main=20
requirement of browsing the web, which is pretty much all I want)=20
because of the screen being taken up with loads of bars/features of=20
which I needed hardly any of, and it was so sluggish even on a recently=20
purchased Sony laptop. I dislike bloatware in general and using=20
"features" just because you can, but I don't think this page is really=20
very guilty of that.
In the long run (in my experience) it usually saves hassle to just keep=20
stuff like browsers, mail clients etc updated to within the last few=20
versions.

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