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- mijlee
What does everyone reckon to this;
http://netcenter.netscape.comlots of Flash content, big move for a portal like Netscape?
- jox0
Well job one would be to make it work in Explorer.
- mirola0
they'll didtch the flash in about 2 months.
- silencer0
a bit pointless doing it in flash?
- Gorbie0
well...
i promise you i will never return to that site again.
- sgoodwin0
well it doesn't work properly in anything i've got on my mac... even nutscrape! good move.
- shaft0
Suckers give flash a bad name. There must be a standards nazi plot behind this.
- stem0
Too fussy?
No Need...
- tomkat0
we have a worst ever nominee here.
crashed safari in less than 10secs
- fifty500
pretty unstable on Safari. Hasn't crashed me, but it keeps appearing and disappearing. "Flash" is a suitable word here because when I hover my mouse pointer over a link the whole site pretty much flashes on and off. piece of crap if you ask me. design to be view universally, not just on IE6.
- tomkat0
I can see a funny conflict in the making of their site.. will they decide to make it standard compliant and scare away the IE users that might have a go at switching, or will they include the stupid boxmodel hack and admit the superior position that the f**kin IE still has..?
.. just thinking loud
- milo0
I don't get it - so much for w3c standards?... for a portal like that I thinks it's pretty short sighted.
- imakedesign0
agreed why did they do this. text looks awful, what about search engines etc...
very odd
- tomkat0
maybe.. just.. maybe..
they have a masterplan that we are far inferior to understand
maybe.
- bk_shankz0
It doesn't really do anything extra that html can't except slide a little bit.
- shaft0
I see there an interesting concept in action: covering flash with html layers instead of putting html inside flash.
- mijlee0
The thing that annoyed me is that most of the content is still pop ups. The whole point of building something like this in Flash would be to have a seemless environment to view content.
This could have been fantastic and a real move forward in the portal market, but as it is it all seems a bit unnecessary.
- donal0
thats wojus. no doubt someone did a lot of yapping to get it done in flash, i'd say they're browsing the jobs section as we speak.
- van_rijn0
looks like someone forgot to declare a font :)