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Daily Sucker for Wednesday, January 28, 2009
January 27th, 2009 9:09 pm by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: I’m sure you’ve seen worse. Nevertheless…wait for the middle thing to finish loading. No, it’s not done. Wait some more. There goes the music, but it’s not finished. Wait for the 3 Fondue Pots of Mystery Meat Navigation to show up.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: Technically, the site doesn’t need Flash or Mystery Meat Navigation. You can use the site without the MMN because the important information is in the regular navigation. The fondue pan Mystery Meat really doesn’t serve any useful purpose and, what’s worse, mousing over the pans doesn’t reveal any link information. You have to click to go to another level of Mystery Meat. Remember It’s a waste of time.
Of course, if you’re running Firefox with NoScripts or IE with Flash turned off, you get a blank page.
Flash is problematic sucks for lots of reasons (inconsistent interface across sites, eats up extra bandwidth, search engines have issues with Flash, you [generally] have loading screens, etc.), but the biggest reason is it doesn’t solve your visitors’ needs. Everything on this site can be accomplished by HTML.
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