August 7, 2002
Macintosh Users: Please use a site that actually works.
Oh for the love of Zeldman. Continually on the prowl for things to make my ears prick up and itch, friend Danyon passed along this typographically finessed error message found whilst attempting to peruse the FontShop site.
Witnesseth yet another reasonably clever company blaming their visitors and their browser of choice rather than examining their own flakey markup and otherwise decrepit development habits. Is there anything on this site that couldn’t be built using tidy, browser-agnostic markup and a sprinkling of simple JavaScript? Not that I can see, Magee. And don’t get me started on the fact that this ColdFusion-enabled site is so numbingly slow that I almost bailed out on a couple occasions even before seeing the error message for myself. Somebody throw a couple more hamsters into the Pentium, will ya? Oh yes, and the three layers worth of <frameset> tags which make up this particularly cumbersome typeface browsing mechanism are positively draconian. Please tell me this approach to web design is becoming less common. Please?
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