Email conversation
| From | Dirk Van Der Made |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | bad site? it's worse! |
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| Date | 09 August 12:01 |
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One badly designed site you mention is www.it.co.uk. Indeed it's
ridiculous - there are still a few companies that feel they should have an
internet-site, but don't know what to do with it, so they just put a
telephone-number there. But for a company that focuses on the internet
that's really ludicrous. However, there's something else; as you mention,
the only link on the site is a contact-link, but that doesn't work with
Mozilla 1.2a (and K-Meleon 0.6, which uses the same rendering engine). Do
you have any idea why? It does work with Opera, Slimbrowser, FastBrowser,
IE6, Explorer2002 and OffByOne (which, by the way, puts the images at the
bottom, whereas other browsers put it at the top). Of course the link
doesn't work with Amaya 8.0 either (and it also puts the images at the
bottom), but then Amaya's really more of a tool than a browser. And
another thing. As far as I could see, you never make links open in a new
window, which isn't a very good idea, at least from your point of view,
because when people browse away from your site (and away and further away,
as surfers do) without it still remaining open, they may completely forget
about your site. But on the bad-design-pages that causes another problem
because the comments are on the original page, and it would be nice to
have the two in different windows, so you can easily toggle between them,
possibly even putting them side-by-side, if one's monitor is big enough.
Of course, people can right-click and open in another window, but that's
not the way it should be, and how many people know about this option
anyway? One kudo though; Thumbs up for the browser-overview!
D.
| From | Me |
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| To | Dirk Van Der Made |
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| Subject | Re: bad site? it's worse! |
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| Date | 10 August 2003 22:03 |
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The link does not work in Mozilla because the moving layer 'We are
Interactive TV content creators covering a wide range of genres' ends up
over the top of the link. So, even though the layer is transparent so you
can see the link through it, the layer ends up over the top of the link so
it obscurs it from mouse events.
The problem is that they have assumed that all browsers position the
unpositioned content in the same place, which cannot happen as browsers
may have different default element paddings, margins and font sizes.
Well spotted, I will put it down as another design flaw.
As for the enhancement request of opening links in another window, I will
offer a choice. Thanks for the feedback.