The Flicker Blog and Podcast

I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to some pleasure in the email I received from Beatport yesteday:
‘Our team wanted to let each of you know about a recent issue created by the new Flash version 9.0 for PCs (Mac users can ignore this email.) Macromedia/Adobe released a new version of Flash that is creating a log-in issue for all Beatport customers who use the Firefox web browser and the new Flash version 9.0.’

I’ve written previously, twice actually, on the awful (Flash based) user experience offered by what could, and should be, a very attractive customer proposition.

I would dearly love to know who felt that building an entire e-commerce site in Flash was a good idea? Or what business need was being met by abandoning most of the commonly used, and widely understood interaction principles – those supported by the most humble of browsers and the HTML format?

I won’t say I told you so!

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