[thelist] favicon weirdness

[Keith]

I been gone for 6 months and you guys are STILL on this topic?!?! The only 
thing that seems to change on this topic is the Subject: line it gets 
attached to.

>crank up win/ie6 and head to http://oddpost.com/.
>
>.jeff

Excellent example Jeff!  Oddpost is one of the best web applications to 
leap off the desktop and out onto the web. I know, that just weirds some 
people out to the max to see a Win app running loose, gives 'em the 
heeby-geebies to even look at it, sends 'em out running through the streets 
wailing, "The Win apps is commin', the Win apps is comin', hide your 
daughters, the Win apps is commin'".

We have a site with over 700 regulars who use their exercise calendars 
every day. They can edit their calendars right on the day because we're 
using IE's contentEditable attribute. They never "submit" any changes and 
yet when they come back the next day it's just like they left it because we 
are automatically saving to the server in the background. No annoying page 
flip-flop to communicate with the server, no out of place form fields to 
type into, they edit in-place and all those geeky details about why it's 
there tomorrow are kept out of view. Most users confess that it's kinda 
weird the first time, but then think it's kinda weird that they've never 
seen it before because it feels so natural.

So what if it doesn't run in some cult browser or on somebody's home grown 
operating system? It works great for the people who use it and that's the 
only real criteria that counts. We do feel sorry for the guy who damn near 
drowned himself when he got tangled up in his ski poles, but we're not 
going to rip out the boat dock over it.


Keith
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