OT - iPad in the news today ...

That's a fine sentiment. But if someone who happens to own an iPad *now* (or when it really ships) and wants to view a web page *now* with content that is important to them *now* that just happens to include a flash vid or other flash content, that's more than a bit of a problem, isn't it?

Again, this is all well and good if everything one is wanting to do happens to be built-in.

Then they need to start making a case for how this new wonderful thing that doesn't do what people expect is really better because of the different things it does do. Hopefully for Apple, those different things people can do are things that people want to do.

And if it isn't, don't buy it. It's not like Apple is FORCING you to buy their products.

Find an alternative tablet that does what you want.

Oops... There aren't any?

Given the chatter over the past few years about how Apple needs to make a tablet, I wonder why nobody else has stepped into the gap and started making and marketing them? It's not like the Interweb hasn't been full of pundits and bloggers screaming about the need for such a product...

Maybe they were waiting for a company that actually knows how to innovate to create a market they can try to grab a small piece of?

;-)

IMO, this guy pretty well hits the nail on the head:

I rarely agree with Gartenberg, and he's one of the reasons I stopped reading Engadget some time ago, but this column isn't TOO bad. The comments, however, are a laugh riot to read!

You don't have to wait for your iPad to see video without the noxious stench of Flash. HTML5 specs implementation by browser:

It's more than a sentiment. As long as we accept bad design, there is no incentive for companies to build good web sites. It's similar to web sites that require the use of MSIE. I take my business elsewhere and let them know why they lost a customer. There are very few web site that I have to use, and for most of those, I have some ability to influence the design.

It's like the saying the the only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.

One of the coolest websites on the web today:

Doesn't come across all that cool on my Blackberry and is a shitload of overhead on my old laptop. Works just fine on my desktops and is kinda cool. I wonder what percentage of potential customers are still on dial-up.

Go ahead, point me to ANYTHING this is cool on your crackberry's browser! ;)

The point being that every top web designer I know (folks who design for Dell, Continental, Hulu, etc) is green with envy that they didn't get the opportunity to do this particular site.

That site has complete disregard for the little guy who doesn't have the bandwidth/speed to enjoy that website. It is always the little guy who gets the bad seats in the arena. . . . . . :-) (in case you were wondering if I was being serious or not)

;)

Besides, today's top web designers are all twenty somethings ... they have NO concept of "regard(e?)" ... and couldn't spell it if they did. :)

Doesn't run on my PC either. For a blue-chip company and the biggest world restaurant chain, this is a poor excuse, poor design (they should have hired me).

Sorry, you missed the pointe(e), dud(e). You simply aren't cool anymor(e) ... the world has passed you by(e). You gotta b(e) into DMB and Lady Gaga to appreciat(e) subtl(e) genius, and, as always, the bigger the better ... particularly with regarde to your pip(e).

Go have a Moon Pi(e) and a R'er Se(e) and lick your wounded feelings ...

"Swingman" wrote

There is a song in there someplace.

Whoa! Lady Gaga and DMB in the same sentence?

Read this....

Robatoy wrote in news:a059508a-f618-4e54-a8e0- snipped-for-privacy@q4g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:

"Sorry, we can't find that page"

Mmm.. try this and mind the wrap.