Now, a lot of content that was previously available on the site leads to pages that tell you that the content you are trying to access is no longer available. They have also gone and removed some of the RSS feeds on the site and replaced it with a big fat RSS feed of the top stories. So now you can no longer get an individual feed for a topic you might find interesting, you can now only get the main RSS. FAIL.

Today, I made the mistake of following a link to the site and saw this at the top of the page:

“This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3, Safari 4 and Chrome 2. Click here to upgrade.”

Seriously? What year is this? And by looking at the page, I see their problem, JavaScript. Whoever has developed the JS navigation menu or wherever they purchased it from doesn’t support FireFox 2.

Really? I think that means that you are alienating a bunch of visitors by presenting them with a broken (embarrassing) looking site and giving them a borken navigation structure which is a big FAIL. They need to either fire the developer or find a new software package. JS isn’t that hard these days to get it to be cross-browser compliant and there are plenty of people that are willing to do competent work…

original article:

Football – Newsday.

Site seen with FF2:

Update: I was going to post a comment on that article and then also found:

Which is another big time FAIL because they are not properly displaying their terms of service…

As programmers, we often forget-or don’t know yet know-about the way computers interpret our commands, instead focusing on the tasks we need to accomplish. Indeed, our day is filled with adding more and more code to fix bugs or create new content in a program already bulging at the seams.

I suggest that as programmers it is really our duty to make the program as efficient as possible; a lean, mean fighting machine! As I being to attend classes, I intend to log and comment on my experiences, and how it is affecting the way I program. My first classes begin this fall-Precalculus and Java I-so expect to see more from me soon!