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by Digital-Citizen
2771 days ago
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I don't find it hard to identify what's so awful about amazon.com even if there's currently no other existing website to do the same job at the same scale: - I think that Javascript is widely used needlessly forcing lots of unnecessary reflows and repaints; this slows down searching and using the site. - I find the searches are broken to the point where it is easier for finding stuff using another search engine which indexes amazon.com's webpages. - I don't like collapsing portions of the webpage (such as long reviews). I'd rather download simple static markup and scroll through reading what I want presented to me in the order I've chosen. - I don't want to see JS-based image/movie previews; inline images and using a modern browser's built-in video is much better as those can be styled in the way the user wants and obey other user-centric preferences as the web ought to do. So to me saying 'it works' is putting commercial interests above my user interface interests and interests I deem more important such as how Amazon treats its workers. At best I'd say this puts into perspective how overvalued website development really is for commercial interests and how wildly off the mark website development is at identifying and building on something simple and easy to use. I've also found that Amazon purchases are often misleading (selling used merchandise as new, selling USB keys that hold less than the advertised storage size, and more) which means more time and money spent not really knowing what's on offer and higher chance of returning bad merchandise. All of this taken together means I shop elsewhere. |
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We had a lot of non web developers writing JavaScript. No idea if it's like that any more, but I can certainly say that that was responsible for some serious performance sins!
Modern browsers ... hahahahahahaha. I suspect parts of the website still fully support IE6.