Today, I had to decide what project to vote for in the best of swiss web contest..
Well.. They all look kinda fancy, kinda blingbling, kinda oh-here-we-go-make-it-bumbumbumpengpeng, kinda give the user the chocolate they want..
Have these boys EVER used a shell? I don't really think so.. If you grew up with a shell then you would NEVER turn into that hamptidampti mode, for sure.
Anyways.. hampdidampdi pages are nice for hampdidampdi blingbling style people.. What about disabled people? what about richard stallman? what about THE FRIGGIN IPHONE USERS?!
Sometimes you really have to lose faith in this world..
Just a quick review:
radio 105tv: not usable w/o js/flash.. [Diese Seite benötigt Flash Player 8.0. Bitte laden Sie den Flash Player
hier.] .. at least you'll get rid of all the ads (which is about 50% of the page)
cmsbox: works FLAWLESS! (nice job :) I prefer haskell, but who cares..)
freitag: at least you get some content.. but nothing is working.. [ To see the content of this page correctly, you need to upgrade your Flash Player.] at least pictures in the background..
oSkope: yeah, well.. this is of course not working, but flash is kinda the heart of that thing - it wouldn't really work without :) - of course the searching would be possible..
capricorn/remix graubuenden: http://screencast.com/t/PBUWgHlUxEv - that's it :) not even a hint that you need flash
kpt einzeltraining: no personal trainer without flash.. awwwwwww.. but not even a page.. you need flash or get fat! (which is odd, since flash makes everything fat and slow.. usually)
le menu: works flawless.. and even very very nice and usable content.. the register thing bugged me though.. but nevermind
laax.com: MY FAVORITE.. there is not even a comment needed:
screencast.com/t/EQiG7eSof
tvprogramm.sf.tv: first I thought: this will never work w/o js.. well, it does! this is quite cool. (i like the project anyway.. nice job) but you don't have the full functionality (you can't add stations and stuff)
iconomix.ch: yeah well, I worked on that thing day in - day out, I can't really rate it.. But.. (facts now) All the content is available without flash/js, except the games.. (people w/o js probably won't care about games anyway)
So boys of the web2.0.. what's wrong with you? This web thing was about information, not about hampdidampdi.. but I guess publicity has a bigger money-weight than usability.. Go on make stuff fancy and useless..
UPDATE:
lejoe_> marca: didn't you mean accessibility instead of usability in your last sentence (blog post)?
- I actually meant both..
