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diff --git a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Thu/walmart.txt b/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Thu/walmart.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae38f60 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Thu/walmart.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Walmart's new movie download service is trying to [turn back the clock to 1996][1]. The new service not only is Windows exclusive (get your DRM for free!) but the site requires Internet Explorer. We culled together a list of [the worst offenders of the IE-only disease][2] a while back and we've added Walmart to the list. + +But Walmart's new download service isn't just limited, crippled, DRM-laden, expensive and doomed, it has something I haven't seen in ages -- the dreaded spacer.gif. And I'm not talking about the site layout itself, which I can't get to because I don't have IE, I'm talking about the error page. + +Yes just to show me a page telling me I can't use the browser of my choice, the intrepid programmers in the Walmart code sweatshop had to resort to the spacer gif. + +I predict Walmart's movie download service will fold by the end of summer. Good riddance. + +[1]: http://mediadownloads.walmart.com/mmce/jsp/ieonly.jsp "Party Like it's 1996" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/this_page_requi.html "This Page Requires Internet Explorer: Worst Offenders?"
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