[TriLUG] Irritating web site

[john mitchell]

Did you consider writing them and complaining?
   I am quite often surprised by the numerous web sites that require the 
visitor to have a specific plug-in/option to use the site.
   The purpose of a web site is to communicate - if the powers that be 
find out that their Super-Whiz-Bang web site is not viewable by a 
segment of the population, they will get it changed. I had this happen 
when www.handango.com required Flash to use their web site. An e-mail to 
the web master resulted in a reply from a VP and on the following Monday 
it was usable without flash.
   Please note that an e-mail that flames the site/product/code will get 
less consideration than a polite query.

john mitchell


Andrew Perrin wrote:

>The web site for San Francisco's Hotel Nikko (www.hotelnikkosf.com) turns
>of scrollbars for any browser other than IE. (ugh.)  That makes it
>impossible to read not just their site, but any site visited *after* it
>until you close the browser.
>
>This is quite irritating. Any advice on working around it? (Using Mozilla
>as browser.)
>
>Thanks,
>Andy
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>Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
>Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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