Friday, January 16, 2004
BigPond Music: Some people just don't get it...
Telstra, a very large Australian company who should know better, launched BigPond Music today (http://www.bigpondmusic.com/home.asp), and while some might be excited by the whole pay for download concept for music the site itself is a tragedy.
The content on the home page excited me when I first saw it, it looked like an RIA, smelt like an RIA, interacted like an RIA – but try out the search form or genre selector and what do you get, major page refresh for the search results. What a pity their development team chose to go down the traditional form/action page track, why not just build the whole thing in HTML – shows a great lack of understanding of the technology that’s available and that’s being used on their part.
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Hi, what is an RIA... used in comments on "Bigpond Music. Some people just don't get it..." article.
Cheers
Posted by: Nigel Anderson on February 2, 2004 10:59 AM
Nigel
The Rich Internet Application or RIA is a term originally coined by Macromedia to describe the next generation web application, you can find out more information about them here:
http://www.macromedia.com/resources/business/rich_internet_apps/
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew Muller/rebel on February 2, 2004 11:06 AM
Hey, I just sent a post and here is another! After reading the Bigpond article, I clicked over to have a look. I thought I would try it out.
I decided to 'Buy' .."Roll Over DJ" - Jet, once I clicked 'Buy'the page refreshed and I was greated with a new text message in the fla window reading, ...'Purchasing of music is only available to Residents of Australia'
OK so what does Sydney NSW mean to Bigpond?
techincally would this mean my requests are coming from OS
Or is this another Bug!
Someone had to take the brave first step so I guess we should not kick'em too hard.
Posted by: Nigel Anderson on February 2, 2004 11:09 AM
Hi, what is an RIA... used in comments on "Bigpond Music. Some people just don't get it..." article.
Cheers
Posted by: Nigel Anderson on February 2, 2004 10:59 AM
Nigel
The Rich Internet Application or RIA is a term originally coined by Macromedia to describe the next generation web application, you can find out more information about them here:
http://www.macromedia.com/resources/business/rich_internet_apps/
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew Muller/rebel on February 2, 2004 11:06 AM
Hey, I just sent a post and here is another! After reading the Bigpond article, I clicked over to have a look. I thought I would try it out.
I decided to 'Buy' .."Roll Over DJ" - Jet, once I clicked 'Buy'the page refreshed and I was greated with a new text message in the fla window reading, ...'Purchasing of music is only available to Residents of Australia'
OK so what does Sydney NSW mean to Bigpond?
techincally would this mean my requests are coming from OS
Or is this another Bug!
Someone had to take the brave first step so I guess we should not kick'em too hard.
Posted by: Nigel Anderson on February 2, 2004 11:09 AM