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Site Review: 2002 Olympics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the 100-click-dash dept.

Andy King writes: "If Olympic Web sites were an event, Salt Lake wouldn't even take the bronze. Our review reveals some gnarly accessibility moguls." There's another review of the site which mentions the many accessibility problems that the Sydney Olympics had with its website. The site doesn't appear to work at all with konqueror.

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  1. You guessed it... by squaretorus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heres the address: http://www.saltlake2002.com/

  2. Why the page doesn't display in Konqueror by Dr.Dubious+DDQ · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's the reason the page doesn't display in Konqueror (part of page source follows - don't worry, it's short).

    <script language=javascript src=/x/inc/get_guid.asp></script>
    <script language=javascript src="http://a799.ms.akamai.net/3/799/388/aa5324979 fa989/www.saltlake2002.com/x/js/xtd_funct.js">& lt;/script>
    <script language=javascript src="http://a799.ms.akamai.net/3/799/388/cf806351e 98dbd/www.saltlake2002.com/x/js/stdframe.js">&l t;/script>
    <noscript>Javascript must be enabled to view this site.</noscript>

    Note that this is almost ENTIRELY the content of the page. So, in short, it's a combination of hideous web design and one of the handful of javascript-related features (loading javascript from an alternate location via "src=") that isn't yet implemented in Konqueror.

    Whatever happed to the "KISS" principle?...

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  3. nice resemblance by tijsvd · · Score: 3, Informative
    Compare this with this. It's clear that not too much work was done, the site was just copied from the NBC site. As stated in the review, it has the same dull titles: "NBC Olympics" became "Olympics".

    It is really sad that the IOC couldn't hire an independant site builder to create the site here.