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20051208 Noxtrum: cómo no hacer las cosas

Busco mi apellido (por aquello de que Noxtrum sea un buscador heredero de páginas amarillas y tal, y aquello del egocentrismo…) e ipso facto firefox me invita amablemente a enviar un report de errores a los desarrolladores. Tras mi negativa, es microsoft el que quiere que lo envíe también, a microsoft, claro está. En otras palabras, el hecho de buscar algo en este buscador hace que el browser se cierre automáticamente.

Vuelvo a abrir la página, echo un vistazo al código (¡sin buscar!) y entre toda la marranada de html me encuentro una función para limpiar espacios cuando el campo de búsqueda pierda el foco, e imagino que es la causante de la super explosión en firefox. Obviamente, tengo mejores cosas a las que dedicarle el tiempo, así que cierro la ventana y me olvido para siempre de este fiasco, que además tardó siglos en cargar y es feo de narices.
Mini-d sí ha conseguido ir más allá de la primera pantalla, puedes leer qué opina acerca de Noxtrum, y más detalles acerca de la poca calidad de la página, también.

20050104 iberia, or how to lose your future clients

I must flight to Valencia (my home city) for some reasons. Just for once, I decided to take a look to another web apart of easyjet. Well, the first impression is really poor. Slow loading time and a gloomy aspect which does not peace any mind. I select one destination and the origin does not change accordingly. It seems to have a very poor javascript code… otherwise it should have detected that I had made a change. Well, I try to lose the focus of this component to help it change -it's like a … come in! you can do it, stupid form!!-. But it does not change anything at all.
I try to put up with it, but, hey, I want to flight FROM London, not from Valencia. Where's the button or the link to change the direction of the flight? Nowhere.
And why the hell nothing changed when I modified the destination or the origin fields? Ok, I can not resist anymore, I press the right button and then View source. What a bunch of shit. Lots of useless things. Why do I want all of these code if it does not make anything more usable? KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPIDS! If it does not work, do not add it to the page. It would have been better to use a simple form without any fancy buttons. A simple form THAT WORKS THE WAY WE EXPECT TO. Because, if I see a fancy form with lots of different buttons, I expect to get a higher level customer satisfaction. Not a cheap one.
Anyway, I try to breath deeply. Select Valencia - London, to see how much does it cost. Or to see if I can change the direction of the flight and then flight to Valencia from London. But none of them. I get a complex result with poorly formatted tables and NO PRICES in it. Do I have to register to see the prices? I don't know it. I can't see it in any place on the page. So… I close it. You have lost one possible client.