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Webby Awards

2002-06-19 17:34:14+02 by TC 1 comments

The winners of the webby awards have been published. Some of the sites are slow or even non responsive due to the "slashdot effect" of their new celebrity.

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#Comment made: 2002-06-19 19:10:58+02 by: Dan Lyke

A few things struck me.

  1. Not only is the site unusable in Lynx, it breaks my usual use pattern in Opera because ctrl-shift-click causes the JavaScript to be run in the context of a new window, which appears to fail.

But beyond the user-interface suckiness and nit-picking:

  1. How mundane most of the sites seemed to be. It feels like the worst of the self-congratulatory bits of the Oscars.