UKNM: boo.com - more invective

[Paul Gill]

At 11:23 04/11/99 -0000, you wrote:

>moan, moan, moan.

>come on. boo may be slow, but it's not at all bad. some of the functions are

>excellent. and it says on the front (back?) page that it's designed for 56k

>modems and above, so there you are.

>ambition being the mother of success, i wish boo all the best. and

>callnet0800 for that matter. why are some people so quick to mock?


It's (primarily) a commerce site. That means to me that, amongst other

things, they are selling product through the site.


When it takes me 5 minutes just to get the first page of the catalogue and

then another 5-8 mins to actually buy an item, surely I'm allowed to mock?


And that was done at work from a T3. Can't wait until I try it at home. Not.


I can't even bookmark a page! I can't bookmark the UK site! Everytime I

want to buy something from them, I'm going to have to tell them that I'm in

the UK.


>have you seen charlottestreet.com? it's also built entirely in flash.

>to the brave innovators behind all these initiatives: congratulations.


Excuse my French (and for sounding a bit like Stefan), but rubbish.


Not only do these site have to be repurposed for a non-Flash audience

(which is still pretty large) on the web, the same has to be done for WAP

and DITV. I could go on, but we've this ground has been gone over many

times before on this list.


Cheers,


Paul Gill

Head of Music and Entertainment

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