[thelist] Site check: Staples.com

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at speakeasy.net
Tue Sep 20 01:53:24 CDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 01:59 -0400, M. Seyon wrote:
> Message from Shawn K. Quinn (9/19/2005 11:04 PM)
> 
> >On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:06 -0400, M. Seyon wrote:
> > > And you make this statement based on the fact that you have:
> >
> >- found their Web site unusable due to a patently obvious lack of
> >testing and/or a very erroneous assumption that everyone uses the exact
> >same browser, operating system, and hardware that was used to test it
> >the one time it was tested.
> >
> >I have the answers
> 
> That' great.
> 
> And I'm a customer who has used their site in the past, and who has 
> personally compared their site to others in the same industry - can't 
> remember every which one but compusa was one of them - and found it leaps 
> and bounds more intuitive, and faster to complete the tasks I set out to 
> accomplish.
> 
> And I couldn't give a fish's ass whether they use cookies or not. Which is 
> probably not terribly far off how they'd feel about you and your 
> 0.0000000001% 

Firefox has this few users? Not last I checked.

> esoteric browser/os/configurations choices - choices that i am 100%
> sure you made with full knowledge that they would restrict your
> ability to use many websites.

The entire point of the Web is platform, operating system, and browser
independence. We are long past the 1980s where you had little realistic
hope of reading anything besides plain text on another computer (and in
some cases, even that, remember EBCDIC?).

> Face it, this is 2005 and people aren't running html 1.0 on lynx any more.

I am not using Lynx either.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>



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