Fußball's Coming Home
Courtesy of The Times, Baddiel and Skinner will be doing free podcasts throughout the World Cup! Anyone who saw Fantasy Football League in the BBC glory days will surely agree that David and Frank talking about football can be bloody hilarious. Those who saw the most recent ITV series in 2004 might disagree, but I'm still optimistic for these podcasts.
They're all on this site, which is a bloody atrocity. Just shut up! I don't need to hear David and Frank have the same humourous exchange every time I visit a page. I want to surf the net while listening to music or watching the telly, so just be quiet, you Macromedia whores. But the podcasts should definitely be worth downloading; there's a trailer up at the moment and the first one is released on Monday.
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- By Ian Symes
- Posted on Friday, June 02 2006 @ 12:38 pm
- Categorised in Net
- Tagged with baddiel and skinner, world cup
- 7 comments
This is 100% correct, and the entire problem when it comes to websites involving sound. They should all just SHUT UP, and let us listen to what we want to. Sadly, some people get carried away and try and create "a complete media experience", or some such shit.
The only good use I've ever seen of sound on a website is here...
By John Hoare
June 02, 2006 @ 4:26 pm
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I know...the number of times I've gone mental looking for a 'turn sound OFF' button on pages like that and then there just isn't one, that's when my laptop ends up on the floor. It's bad design, rather than making you notice the site more it just makes you want to leave it to get rid of the sound.
By performingmonkey
June 02, 2006 @ 5:42 pm
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Yet my fucking Design for Usability tutors would have you believe that sites made in flash with lots of sounds are BEST.
By Cappsy
June 02, 2006 @ 6:18 pm
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'Design" for "Usability"
By John Hoare
June 02, 2006 @ 6:22 pm
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Stupid, isn't it? I mean, they tell us all about validation and alt tags (one of the first things I taught myself anyway) but they still go on about Flash and "multimedia experiences".
Or, at least, that's what they did in the first half of the module. I got pissed off and never went again.
By Cappsy
June 02, 2006 @ 6:32 pm
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The thing is, there are ways of using Flash and still keeping accessibility - only using it for certain things you can't do any other way, providing image fallbacks, providing the same information in other ways if you have to, etc etc etc. But it doesn't sound like they're even remotely trying to teach that, whenever you talk about it. If you use it for a cartoon, fine. If you're using it for navigation, you're an idiot.
My other problem with Flash is that it's proprietary, and I'm not keen on proprietary formats on the web. Sadly, until SVG gets sorted out, we're stuck with it for the odd task. It *is* hugely overused, though.
By John Hoare
June 02, 2006 @ 6:37 pm
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Not to mention the fact that there's huge problems embedding FLash movies whilst keeping strict validity in your XHTML. The embed tag is rubbish.
Having said that, I'll have to be using Flash in a major soon, but hopefully it will fully justify its use.
By Cappsy
June 02, 2006 @ 6:48 pm
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