HW: Mission Control Website

[Rik Rx]

Hi Dave you make a few good points, however your notes are based on EXISTING
pages, not the yet to be unleashed site....

Each new encarnation of browser brings probs, such as our great friends at
Micro$oft not including the Java Engine in their shiny new browser. Do we
assume people (such as those on a 28.8k dialup) will bother to do the 6mb
Java engine download just to see one of our applets? Or take all Java off
the site so that nobody gets it? Trikky decisions need to be made 4 sure.

That's why the newie is taking ages.. it's hard to create "something for
everyone" when everyone has very different needs. This is easy when we
create commercial sites that are targetted at a very different sector, but
the brief for the HW site is to reflect the rich visual environment that HW
demands by default.

The fades are trikky - some like, some don't - and it's not JavaScript as
someone claimed, but a IE only METAtag transition. Maybe we should have a
democratic referenum ?

Rx



On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 20:22:25 +0100, David Blair
<drb.serendipity at DSL.PIPEX.COM> wrote:

>In article <200208281829.OAA02351 at listserv.spc.edu>, Rik Rx <hw at CY-
>B.ORG> writes
>
><snip argument>
>
>>IF YOU GET 'LOST IN SPACE' - CLICK ON THE EYE
>>The "hard to navigate" MC site has one very, very simple concept to grasp:
>>click on the eye that appears on every
>>page to return to the central, 'mission control' launchpad, from where you
>>can access all the site's key areas.
>
>Not in the latest release of Mozilla you can't - no eye. Can't see it in
>Opera 6.0 either.
>
>How about - 'and a very basic one who for those who want to be able to
>navigate/find information easily and quickly and are pig sick of seeing
>the same slow fades over and over again and want to make the most of
>their modern fast connections rather than visiting a slow cumbersome
>site that looks like a nostalgic retro trip for lovers of the 28.8k
>modem experience.'
>
>Oops, nearly forgot - ;o)
>--
>David Blair