I've just visited Bobby for the first time in - I forget how long. What a ghastly mess! The first thing that happened was a long wait for Netscape to display the page[1]. This was repeated later whenever I used the back button to return to <URL:http://www.cast.org/bobby/>, indicating that the page's labyrinthine construction is the main culprit. When the page finally displayed, it showed most of the symptoms of a poorly-written 1997 kool-deziner page. A look at the source confirms a wealth of the worst legacy markup: tables-for-layout, liberal use of <FONT>, spacer GIFs, etc (as well as several hundred blank lines at the top: is this some stupid hide-source trick?). Furthermore, not only is the HTML a mess, but the backend is broken. Many of the options there, including the "Change Interface" link and the "Site Tools" select box, generated internal server errors whenever I tried them - for example: Error Diagnostic Information An error occurred while evaluating the expression: "#session.LastPage#" Error near line 34, column 20. Error resolving parameter SESSION.LASTPAGE I've put a screendump of what Netscape 4.7 displays at <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/bobby.png> Lynx is a little better, but still looks extremely silly. Conclusion: what can I say? How can anyone take this seriously? [1] This is a FreeBSD box, and doesn't have enough RAM to run Mozilla - so I'm a mild case of requiring accessibility myself. -- Nick Kew Is your site a lawsuit waiting to happen? See <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/intranet/> before it's too late.Received on Monday, 12 February 2001 16:17:29 GMT
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