During the first few nights of watching the olympics I noticed a little “live” sign written in the top right corner of the screen. I thought that people on the East coast must be up really late because I watched Michael Phelps win some gold medal LIVE at 11 PM my time. I thought to myself, “are people in New York staying up until 1 AM to catch swimming?
My post tonight deals with accessibility of web sites on different devices. I find that I occasionally run into problems while browsing the web on my mobile phone. My main problem is when I access (or at least try to access) absolute links for larger sites.This happens mainly when I browse digg.com or reddit.com.When I follow a link to an article on the LA times online I am kicked back to their mobile homepage with generic links to top articles. This is one of many sites that causes this problem. Another example is newsweek. I attempted to access a URL on their site and I found myself at the homepage with only 3 links to stories I had no interest. Read the rest of this entry »