[Charlug] [Fwd: [DFWUUG:Discuss] IO-InfoOnly: What A Little Imagination Can Do For a Web Site - KOOL]

[Rick Pasotto]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:58:23AM -0600, David Simmons wrote:
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> 
> 
> FYI...  from another mailing list...
> 
> HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on Nov. 4,
> 1926, in Amsterdam. Now, there are 150 stores all over the
> Netherlands, and there are stores in Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany.
> 
> In June of this year, HEMA was sold to the British investment company
> Lion Capital.
> 
> Take a look at HEMA's product page. It's in Dutch and you can't order
> anything, but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what
> happens...the company has a sense of humor and a great computer
> programmer:
> 
> http://producten.hema.nl/

No, they have a lousy programmer. I load the page and see essentially
nothing except that in two places it says I need to upgrade my flash
player. My flash player is the latest available.

Web sites that *require* flash are evil.

Web sites that *require* javascript to be enabled to *work* are evil.
Javascript should be used only to *enhance* a web site, but you should
be able to use the site without it.

-- 
"If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. This is a lesson it
 has taken you a very long time to learn. When people have learned this
 lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general
 welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province
 and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world."
	-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
    Rick Pasotto    rick at niof.net    http://www.niof.net