2006-07-11 Ramblings
Tuesday, July 11, 2006# Dumb moments on the web: accessible embedded video content is a trivial problem for most websites... except NineMSN:
The IE6 requirement aside, have a look at the instructions: Install Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and then "Once installations are complete reload this page". Firstly I already have IE6 installed and secondly I am looking at this webpage using Firefox so I can reload the page all day and it still wouldn't do anything different.
# More dumb moments on the web: Channel Ten's 9am program has a website (NineMSN again) that offers recipes... only in MS Word format.
# My new pet annoyance: people who sign off every message board comment with 'HTH'. Did you actually help anyone with anything?
# There will be pain. There has been an unpresendented lull in browser development because of IE6. When IE7 is rolled out, it'll be a huge change for the web and especially intranets. Browser based software application makers everywhere who have targeted IE have been able to rest on their laurels for a long time now. My hope is that they will have their day of reckoning but I suspect that it will be able to be rationalised as an economically justified strategy.
# Dan Saffer, describes a generational perspective of the history of computers and for my generation, gen X, he notes "commercial internet, web browsers' . and it suddenbly struck me how true that is. I'm in love with web browers, always have been. Web pages, HTML, URLs, bookmarks and so on - that's the definition of the web for me. Always has been from the start. But the web is of course much more. Hell for my kids it's a whole range of networked software; some use web browsers some don't. In fact for them non-networked software is the exception.
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