December 22, 2003
{christ|gift}mas, web platforms
An article in the Telegraph talks about parents reining in spending on Christmas presents. At last! The whole festive season thing seems to be more about consumerism than anything else, so it's nice to hear that some are trying to "keep celebrations traditional". Interestingly, the Telegraph is light on details on what exactly constitutes "traditional" these days.
I was also wondering what platform the Telegraph use for their site - I'm not familiar with the .jhtml extension, but according to WebMonkey it's ATG Dynamo. It seems to be the same platform that several big sites use, such as Reuters, Network Solutions, Handspring, and the NHS Direct site apparently were using it:
... but are now using ASP. Which fills me with confidence for the health of our nation.
Back to the Christmas thing. Following on from the Send Them Back meme, we now have CDs make crappy presents. I couldn't agree more - I don't like the recording industry - but rather than blank CD-Rs, I'd really love to give the gift of iTunes. Two things I wish for by next Christmas: the iTunes Music Store available in the UK, and a UK version of the iTunes Music Store gift certificates. Oh yeah, and peace and goodwill to all would be nice, too.
Posted by savs at December 22, 2003 7:21 AM.asp, .jhtml, .php, .jsp, .cfm... How easy it is to find the technology used by most web sites!
Our beloved Cocoon completely hides this, which is good from a technical POV, but bad form a marketing POV. So what about a ".coc" extension?
(no I haven't said ".cock"!!)
Posted by: Sylvain Wallez at December 22, 2003 10:08 AMI think all filename extensions are evil ;-)
In an ideal world, the web browser should hide filenames from the user - after all, it's an implementation detail that's irrelevant to most people.
As for marketing - we just need to make people think web sites are synonymous with Cocoon ...
Posted by: Andrew Savory at December 22, 2003 10:46 AM