Velocity

at 14:33 on 21 March 2006, Aaron Bassett wrote:

Looks nice, but if I disable Javascript I cant navigate the site . They need to put some thought into supporting users who for whatever reasons do not have a javascript enabled browser.

Also they ahve done the right thing by placing alt tags on their images but there is no title tags or anyway of knowing what exactly the images link to. Also the alt tags are pretty sparse on information.

Perhaps thats ok for their target, maybe they are assuming that whoever visits the site will know the exact part name they need.

But IMHO they need to do alot of work to ensure their site is accessible and degrades well.

at 16:02 on 21 March 2006, Greg wrote:

Well put, Aaron -- completely agree. I see a lot of divs in the source but nothing else in terms of semantic markup (with the exception of a few heading tags). Why wrap a list of links in a div when you could just as easily style a more semantically correct unordered list?

at 18:31 on 21 March 2006, David B. wrote:

I think we should all practice what we preach ;)

at 19:23 on 21 March 2006, Greg wrote:

I think we should all practice what we preach

hahaha! If you're referring to my crap site I completely agree. It was done when I was young and immature and didn't know any better.

at 19:59 on 21 March 2006, Velaluka wrote:

Indeed, when JS is off. the hidden divs should be visible by default. If the script had used the method hide. Js would have hidden these elements on page load. And they would be visible when JS is off.

Though good to check source code to learn how they extended the object and made custom functions.

at 22:15 on 21 March 2006, Marcin wrote:

I happen to be the developer of this site. Everyone here said that it doesn't work when JS is off. It's true and I don't want to argue on that.

However, my job was to develop a Flash-like experience, without using Flash. It was the first time we used moo.fx and we are preety satisfied with it. Thanks, mad4milk! Maybe next time it will be possible to go further and use an easily degradable code (with IE7?).

PS. The first version of my code was preety semantic, with all the UL and LI. I had to go back to ordinary DIV and IMG because of the infamous dissapearing background-image bug in IE. It resulted in a little smoother animation, too.

at 23:28 on 21 March 2006, Greg wrote:

However, my job was to develop a Flash-like experience, without using Flash.

Well you have definitely succeeded in that respect! Congrats!

at 16:09 on 22 March 2006, Velalula wrote:

gladly most people surf with images on, CSS on and JS on.

Handheld media devices (mobile devices) though wont be able to surf the site since there is no use of headings or alternative textual content. If you disable styles, you see images but lose the structure.

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