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Beatport February 13th 2007, ricardo
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!
7 comments

Maybe I mess the 'tab' feature tho.
February 13th 2007, ricardo cabello
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
February 13th 2007, acidbeat
Nah, la descubri en Noviembre o asi, pero como veia que la usaba bastante queria mencionarla.
February 13th 2007, ricardo cabello
do you mean itunes the player or itunes the store?
February 14th 2007, sole
iTunes the APP.
February 14th 2007, ricardo cabello
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.
February 14th 2007, spite
Probably doing it with flash made the development cheaper.
February 14th 2007, ricardo cabello