[thelist] This site will make yo u cry (to the tune of £1 ,000,000)

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 10 19:13:01 CDT 2002


This is almost too funny in a sense - isn't this one of the reasons
why VKit got started? I mean think about it.

Tom
--- Simon Willison <simon at incutio.com> wrote:
> At 18:59 10/07/2002 -0500, Ben Henick wrote:
> >On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Shashank Tripathi wrote:
> >
> > > Just a thought. My point is: indifference to that ludicrous
> website is
> > > perhaps the best punishment they deserve. Ignore it instead of
> blogging
> > > it all over.
> >
> >Except for one thing...
> >
> >Accountability.  If I was a British ratepayer, I'd be rightfully
> livid to
> >know that the money I spend is going into tripe like that.
> >
> >Then there is the matter of Government involvement.
> >
> >And so on, and so on.
>
> Then there's the fact that if we DON'T make a fuss about sites like
> this
> people may never even realise there's something wrong with them.
> This kind
> of thing sets the internet and the web design industry back years -
> we
> can't just let it go by saying "we'll just be giving it free
> publicity", or
> the people involved (and budding developers who see their
> abomination as
> "the cutting edge of the web") will keep doing it, wasting millions
> more
> and further increasing the divide between high profile sites and
> good
> design practise, standards and accessibility. Do you remember the
> press
> Boo.com got when it was realised that their hugely expensive
> e-commerce
> site was a usability nightmare? It benefited the whole e-commerce
> industry
> as other e-tailers realised that shoddy accessibility was
> fundamentally bad
> for business. Give them press, give them hell and help teach the
> rest of
> the industry a valuable lesson - sites like that should go the way
> of the
> dinosaurs. Stay silent and no one will learn a thing.
>
> I'm off to bed. Really this time. I need to cut down on the
> caffeine ;)
>
> Simon
>
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