Who’d a thunk it – a corporate blog on MSN Spaces. <\/p>\n
Check this out<\/a>. <\/p>\n Big problems a gwan though. The CNBC site does a horrible job of supporting Firefox. No pictures and so on. No buttons. <\/p>\n Please stop the madness. I evidently had not been thinking through the implications of Microsoft’s "extensions" in Spaces clearly enough in the past. I tried to give Dare and the folks at MSN the benefit of the doubt, but this is just bad. Fie on you and your toolkits<\/a>! AJAX is about small pieces loosely joined, that’s where richness comes from – Flexibility. Did you notice flickr migrate from Flash to DHTML? No. There is a reason for that. "User interface problems<\/a>" – yeah my heart bleeds. <\/p>\n Give with one hand<\/a> and take with the other.<\/p>\n A new IE lock in on corporate web communications. That’s just what we all need. The squawkbox is actually a reasonable enough web site in IE, but the browser lock is bad bad bad. I have said some positive things about Spaces in the past. My line had been somewhat like Allistair<\/a>‘s.<\/p>\n "MSN Spaces is a great product within the context of the MSN package"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I hereby recant. Feel free to burn me now. <\/p>\n I am also a bit surprised that the Spaces license suits CNBC, but that’s another story.<\/p>\n I wish Microsoft would stop "extending the power"<\/a> of simple powerful things. I want to call the firm a good citizen. I really do. Its like Gurdeep telling me Communicator will support Firefox<\/a>, which i am beginning to doubt.<\/p>\n Repeat after me: Small pieces, loosely joined, small pieces, loosely joined…. or maybe not.<\/p>\n Just once it would be nice to see a change in the modus operandi. Play nicely with others like Yahoo<\/a>. I wasn’t sure i followed Sam’s post today<\/a>, but the whole extensions thing is such a drag. <\/p>\n Is there a role for integrated innovation – sure. Check out the Scoblephone on the Orange network. But this Spaces thing is integrated aggravation<\/a>. I guess we need more Firefox Only<\/a> sites to even the balance…<\/p>\n CNBC has shut itself off from at least 10% of the market, many of whom are influencers of stature. Shrewd. Definitely lame site<\/a> of the week.<\/p>\n Please include me as an agitator for Open Media Standards<\/a>. That is a club i will happily join.<\/p>\n\n