Dilbert.com Needs A New Webmaster
A new look and feel was unveiled for Dilbert.com
You'd think that people would be delighted, but the opposite is the case.
Why?
Well whoever is responsible for the screwup that is the new site seems to be living in the past.
The new Flash animations are simple Flash. There's no reason why they wouldn't work in most browsers on most platforms, but if you visit the animation section using Linux you get a lovely message:
Doh!
You'd think that people would be delighted, but the opposite is the case.
Why?
Well whoever is responsible for the screwup that is the new site seems to be living in the past.
The new Flash animations are simple Flash. There's no reason why they wouldn't work in most browsers on most platforms, but if you visit the animation section using Linux you get a lovely message:
So you grab yourself a copy of the UserAgent Switcher extension for Firefox and "spoof" a "supported" browser. And of course the entire thing then works fine.
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center 2005, Mac OSX 10.3 or Mac OSX 10.4 is required to view this page
Doh!
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If like myself you have not bothered to install flash the web is a better place.
Rather than go through the hassle of UserAgent Strings if you use NoScript or have javascript turned off they revert gracefully to .gif's, (thats good webmastering in my book);
better yet just use the RSS feed.
|feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip|
Thank his noodly appendage it's not Silverlight !
Rahood
Flash doesn't bother me most of the time, as most sites I frequent use it to enhance the experience not to drive me mad. The only exceptions to that being Sky and Entertainment.ie where the Flash ads tend to break things horribly for me
Michele