Posted by dorayme on 05/25/05 06:02

There is a site that has always been very frustrating from the time it
started till the present day: http://www.tradingpost.com.au/

I won't go into it here beyond saying that on one of my best browsers
(Mozilla 1.3.1) it "flashes" quite unpleasantly; meaning, when you even
scroll down, or across or resize the window, the browser contents, some or
all in random fashion, disappear for a sec and come back. This does not
happen in my IE, but other things don't work in IE with this site.

BTW, there has been talk recently about fixed-width sites. Maybe it is OK
sometimes but here I find it positively annoying.

It strikes me that the designers of this site are not first class. I mean,
eBay, which can attract a fair amount of criticism and which maybe can be
compared in scale and complexity to some extent, looks very competent by
comparison.

What gives here? What is the core problem with the design of this site? It
sure uses tables and cookies and javascript in great dollops. But methinks
there is something more fundamental. I'd bet there are a few people here
could make a heap of bucks offering their services and do a much better job
(be a big one... ). It is so much easier using the newspaper version. I
doubt this would be the case with eBay if there could somehow could be a
paper version of eBay, (forget for a moment the dynamic part of auctioning
to compare, just as goods for sale at their present price in time)

dorayme

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