[LINK] Yet another good idea killed by design...

[Ivan Trundle]

On 08/04/2005, at 6:47 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> "A good idea killed by bad design AND bad implementation."

Couldn't agree more: the site is very badly done (some text appears 
partly under graphics, web implementation denies the existence and 
importance of universal interoperability, silly javascript, 
platform-and-browser-specific applets, dubious use of cookies, etc).

Has anyone contacted the people responsible for the site and asked them 
to consider making changes/improvements?

http://www.dialbeforeyoudig.com.au/members.html

...offers enough Bigpond addresses (some of which look as though they 
were randomly assigned, but never mind) of people possibly worth 
contacting, whilst the source code on many pages also suggests that 
there is someone responsible for content:

<META content="Nick Muggleton, Tim DeSmaele" name=CREATOR>

I would have thought that their collective brief would be to be sure 
that the widest possible audience could access this information.

Anyone wanting to dig a hole in the ground should be using Windows, 
obviously...

Or put it another way: Macintosh and Linux users should stay indoors, 
or not use the internet. Would make life simpler for everyone...

Ivan