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Beatport
13.02.2007
http://www.beatport.com/

This is probably one of the best flash website ever done. Very good example of how Flash can make the user experience much better than a fully accessible website. Compare it to any other online store, and compare how's you listen the previews of the tracks and how many clicks you have to do. I guess this is a good example that sometimes is better to not concentrate on accessibility and concentrate on doing a good service which then ends in a good business.

I'll probably buy some tracks there :)

Edit: I forgot to say iTunes sucks!
posted by ricardo cabello at 20:30
7 comments written so far

Maybe I mess the 'tab' feature tho.
posted by ricardo cabello
13.02.2007 , 20:44

Tarde lo descubrimos eh?! ;) btw hay una cosa que me toca las bowlings y es el página palante página patrás y el cambio de tarifas, antes era más barato, el $ es lo que tiene, el € hace pupaaa. Por lo demás mola musho.
posted by acidbeat
13.02.2007 , 22:15

Nah, la descubri en Noviembre o asi, pero como veia que la usaba bastante queria mencionarla.
posted by ricardo cabello
13.02.2007 , 22:27

do you mean itunes the player or itunes the store?
posted by sole
14.02.2007 , 11:25

iTunes the APP.
posted by ricardo cabello
14.02.2007 , 11:51

where's the effin' improvement?

It's 645K-for-starters of non-scalable ludicrously cluttered interface. Care to copy a title or description, or running FirefBug Net analyzer through this little monster.

This could be a perfectly functional XHTML-AJAX RIA, streamlined to excellence. But no, it just has to be flash-y.

Good business, good service and internet applications are not all about accesibility.
posted by spite
14.02.2007 , 20:40

Probably doing it with flash made the development cheaper.
posted by ricardo cabello
14.02.2007 , 20:44

SORRY!
Is not that I don't care about what you have to say, of course I do, but they are speaking louder and I lost my patience :(
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