Why? Why? Why?
Why would anyone think it’s a good idea to have the nav bar on their website flash on and off?
http://www.artisan-design.co.uk/gazcohw.htm
What went through their minds?
Would they buy a front door for their shop that continuously opened and closed regardless of whether a customer was trying to walk through it at the time?
Posted by Laura on 08-07-2006 at 10:07 am
Tagged with: HCI
3 Comments »
I’m not sure what you’re talking about, I use a funny WebKit based browser on OS X which just shows a normal page. Lets put it into Firefox to check what it looks like there … OMG!
For me though, sites like http://wildern.org/ are nearly as bad. Why the Flash …why?
It works ok in Internet Explorer. To be honest with many sites I think you’re lucky if they test it in anything but IE. Really though - isn’t it about time that there was a standard that works in all of them anyway!
There *is* a standard at W3C.org. Firefox legitimately supports the tag while IE legitimately doesn’t.
The source of the page shows that the text-decoration:blink style has been added to each of the menu items. However, Microsoft (legitimately and sensibly) don’t render the blinking effect. The offending webpage, though, was created using Microsoft’s FrontPage software, which I’d expect to use IE under the covers, which doesn’t display the blinking effect. I expect also that the site’s designer, as Cerys says, tested the site in IE.
Maybe FrontPage does display the blinking, then when it didn’t work in IE during testing, the designer just shrugged his/her shoulders and left the tag in. Who knows! I still blame the designer for poor taste, usability, and Accessibility.