Am I the only one who thinks the BBC's new Web pages really suck ? [View all]

[eppur_se_muova]

Last edited Wed May 13, 2015, 12:05 PM - Edit history (1)

Apparently, things like borders and headings are "out"; the new style is lots of white background and pix as wide as possible. Nothing to break up a page into sections and impose some sort of organization. Oh, and screw you if you don't have a jumbo monitor.

I noticed a while back they were trying out this look on some isolated pages, which made it hard to cite their pages -- text in titles could not be copied, and image locations come with massive amounts of gobbledygook code which made it impossible to copy them, and slowed Firefox to a crawl. Now it is their default style.

Change for the sake of change, at the cost of injury to utility.