Bad move, ClickThinking
I was excited this morning when I read on Green Cars about Optimal energy's re-designed website. They recently launched their electric car the 'Joule'. Except when I clicked through to the optimal energy site it looked awfully familiar. Apparently this didn't escape Damien Du Toit (the owner of the coda identity). Apparently the background image is a direct copy paste probably even ends up as the same hash.
It is completely despicable, unethical, immoral. I am sure optimal energy are unaware of what ClickThinking did, but I hope they get wind of it.
I suppose it should be unsurprising that ClickThinking also uses javascript to add onclick events to their 'navbar' made of div's, instead of, I dunno, anchors? Is HTML still HTML if you don't actually make use of anchors?
UPDATE: Based on the comments below and re-reading the above paragraph, I realise it is not clear that when I rip into the JS menu I am talking about the JS menu on ClickThinking, not the menu on Optimal Energy site
UPDATE: Changed the title of the post to be less venomous. Was "Do not use the services of ClickThinking".
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Im pretty sure that according to accesiblity one should use list items for a nav item like that. Im pretty sure that's what was done there. Im no expert at Javascript either but I see tags i nthe nav?
How does one tell if you used a js onclick event?
Hey man, there's nothing wrong with that nav (or any other links on that page).. it uses standard anchor tags.
It also doesn't use java script on the nav.. it seems like a CSS style bottom border was used for the rollover state :)
Yes, the design is a pretty blatant rip.. but I don't think there's a reason to trash the code.. it all seems fine to me (and I do this for a living)
Gerhard
Please turn javascript off, and load their homepage up. Okay, now, notice how the website NO LONGER WORKS. Now imagine you are a javascript ignorant google bot, or a blind person, or using a cell phone, or a text based browser. I think, if you put yourself in those shoes you might find that I have a pretty good point.
Maybe I live in a world where catering for site crawlers, blind people, and browsers without (or limited levels of) javascript is important.
I realise my gut punches about their JS menu is out of scope of the argument at hand. My point is that it is unsurprising that a company that doesn't understand the nuances of HTML, JS, and CSS also doesn't understand or respect copyright or attribution.
I updated the post after realising that it was unclear that the JS menu I was talking about is on Click Thinking, not on Optimal Energy website.
Brad I think your a jerk off, take a look at your own site .. its disgusting to say the least .. and you still use primitive captcha .. talk about accessibility issues!
This is my personal site, for my personal opinion, and I don't have to worry about how well it does or doesn't work. It is primarily a place to put down an opinion. I use a stock re-captcha tool, and I would love to see a third party captcha tool as good as re-captcha that is accessible. and while this site may not impress you, it doesn't qualify me as a 'jerk off'. If you are going to comment on my site please learn about english:
* Maybe you mean 'Brad I think you're a jerk off'.
* An ellipsis is three dots ... usually without spaces, for e.g. it's disgusting to say the least...and you still use primitive captcha...
* "it's" is the short form for it is, unlike 'its', which is the possessive pronoun, as in 'of it, or belonging to it', my site does not own disgusting.
* You probably wanted to stick a '!' on the end of 'Brad I think your a jerk off, take a look at your own site!' (but shift dot, shift dot is a lot quicker and easier than thinking).
There are more problems, and I am not a grammer and splelling nazi, but is that seriously how you normally write english?
LOL! I'm with you Brad! :D Lame comment, good response
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