[thelist] Site check: Staples.com

[M. Seyon]

Message from Shawn K. Quinn (9/19/2005 04:27 PM)

>On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:32 -0700, Maximillian Schwanekamp wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anyone is seeing this... www.staples.com in FF 1.0.6,
> > homepage loads and then vanishes!  I've been watching these guys make
> > the transition to a more standards-oriented site, but this one was
> > impressive.
>
>Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6, Debian GNU/Linux unstable (post-sarge), Noscript,
>going through Privoxy and Squid. All I get is a blank page. After
>manually copying and pasting the URL from the Javascript source, I get a
>rude error message about cookies (which I shouldn't need enabled just to
>browse). After accepting five cookies for the session, I finally get
>something resembling a home page, with lots of overlapping text.
>
>My opinion: Staples needs to fire whoever made their Web site and hire
>someone competent to fix it.

*laugh*

And you make this statement based on the fact that you have:
- compared their website to their competitors?
- are an actual customer who was unable to complete the task you set out to 
accomplish?
- are a blowhard of the worst sort who has all the answers but none of the 
solutions?

regards.
-marc