canada.com too annoying to use.
I thought I would sign up for electronic access to canada.com today.
It took me about 30 seconds to find the site too annoying to use. Every time I hover over a hyperlink on canada.com, a very annoying sound pops out of the speaker. It is maddening. Some individual working for canada.com must have thought it would be cute - do they not wonder why every site doesn’t have produce annoying sounds every time the reader hovers over a hyperlink. I can’t stand to use their site at all.
Now that modern sites have switched to the atom syndication format, it is also interesting to note canada.com has finally produced some brand new feeds in the archaic RSS format.
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January 5th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
[...] I thought I would give canada.com another chance. I really would find online access to the Victoria Times Colonist useful. Now they have “improved” their offering. Instead of a nice format to read in a web browser or other text reader (i.e. pda/blackberry), their digital edition has some really weird format. It replicates the page view in a browser, and it just sucks to use. Try it. It just baffles me how they get the web so wrong. At least the annoying noises are gone.Why they just can’t publish in a web format, with ads floated around text etc, and some nice downloads for PDAs, I don’t know. After all, after the trial period the digital edition is only available to paid subscribers. I know as a frequent advertiser in their paper edition I would have more people viewing my ad than with their current edition. [...]