Christian Cantrell wrote: > > I won't speak for other Macromedia employees, but for the record, do > not mistake any of my posts for damage control. Macromedia took a big > step forward with our new website, and although we certainly have > plenty of tweaks to make, we are fully confident in our decisions.
I think the overall concept is pretty successful. Even if people have all the Flash turned of because it is just too slow, it is still a huge improvement. I think many of the goals that are explained in the macromedia.com topic center [1] will actually be met with this website (everybody read that, right?). And as for the 100+ messages about the new site, well, don't forget that all the people on this list are people that work with websites every day and are more trained to identify problems as most other users. Apart from that, we all have our quirks. Some people love Opera, and will bitch when a site does not support it. Some of us believe Flash is an instrument of the devil, and will be complain about that. Some of us are bandwidth challenged/impaired/handicapped/crippled, and will complain about the frivolous use of uppercase letters, as we all know that they take more bytes as lowercase letters. Some of us care passionately about standards compliance, and are extremely disappointed that Macromedia does not eat its own dog food. But let me add my wishlist for the overall site, in no particular order (I will someday fill out the feedback forms for individual pages I have an issue with, see below): - speed of Flash website - XHTML+CSS+DOM standards compliance [2] - integration of logins between livedocs, webforums and main site - integration of livedocs in main site layout - XML resource feeds - configurable sidebar panes for browsers to access the XML resource feeds - speed of Flash website - if pages require Flash/ignore my preference not to use Flash, announce that on the link to that page - I don't want to fil out my first name, last name, emailaddress, country, etc. etc. etc. just to be able to report a broken link. I want a button on every page with as the anchor: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%20 - if I want to use a form and it has required fields that happen to be in my profile and I am logged in, I expect those fields to be filled out for me (yes, I am lazy) - if I disable Flash on purpose, I don't need to be reminded of that on every page - speed of Flash website - forward/back does not work reliably Did I mention the speed of the Flash site? A bit weird if it takes 10 seconds on 100 Mbps to download 50 kB. > Evolution is not always easy, but somebody has to do it. I am not sure I want to compare the new site with a step in evolution. The individual mutations on which evolution depends have an extremely high probability of failure. I think the chance that the new site is succesful is higher. Jochem [1] http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mmwebsite/ [2] Or an article on the macromedia.com topic center explaining why this is not possible and which bugs browser vendors have to fix to make this possible. I want someone to blame ;-) and currently I only have Macromedia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
