Reminds me of the good old bad old days of web design, mis-using elements to make the browser do what you want. I don't think it's such a bad thing, although these days not needed so much.
I agree, even if you don't agree with Adam Curtis's politics, his documentaries are very thought provoking and well worth watching. Some of my favourites include "The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream", "The Century of self", "Pandora's Box", "All watched over by Machines Loving Grace". If you enjoyed this particular blog post, check out "The Power of Nightmares".
Do you think that a free 1 month trial + only premium afterwards would work better in this case than a freemium model?
We figured that there could be a large segment of casual day-trip travelers who like to share a story in a more optimized interface than on facebook. Probably many of these will not pay, but could serve for spreading the word through the freemium model and make the marketing easier.
I don't claim any specialist knowledge re:pricing (so bare that in mind while weighing up my response).
I'm not sure about the 1 month trial thing (I think your demo is strong enough that people will understand what your apps about). I get that you want people using it, then when they can't live without hit them up for some money, but you may be cutting your market in half as i'm sure there are a lot of people who travel for 2 weeks who would use your app for that period of time.
As for day-trippers, won't they just use facebook or flickr?
I thought your app was better for proper journeys as you can include elements other than photos (google maps etc).
One last thought: My older relatives always used to make physical scrap books of their travels (with photos / tickets / maps etc) in them. A possible extra/alternative source of income could be to sell the physical version of their online "story" (again not necessarily for them to keep, but to give to other relatives)
That 'technicality'(1) was the universities lack of effective checks on students right to be in the UK, which they had 6 months to fix.
I don't disagree that foreign students bring a lot to this country, and that the handling of this thing by the government was extremely poor (2), but you're conflating two different issues in order to make a point about the Daily Mail.
It seems like you're guilty of the same simplistic arguments.
Unfortunately (at least in the UK) this technique cannot be used on consumer facing sites as it breaks the accessibility of the form for some disabled users.
For personal sites it really comes down to your preferences. Personally I would prefer that everyone was able to comment, however if it stops you having to wade through thousands of spam messages every day I can see the point of using it.
Why would this be an accessibility problem? I don't see why screen readers would have a problem dealing with it - for them the form in the users browser will appear just the same as it otherwise would.
1.) Screenreaders have different modes of operation for different aspects of web content. For dealing with Forms they have Forms mode, in which only form elements are announced. A link isn't a form element, so they wont see the submit button.
2.) Screenreader users have a shortcut key to submit the form - typically when under-qualified web developers create forms without submit buttons. This fires the form submit event, which without a JavaScript preventDefault will get the form contents sent to the URL mentioned in the action attribute on the form. So the screen reader user's comment is treated as spam.
In this case though, from an accessibility point of view there are a few issues with the use of a link tag rather than the standard form 'input submit' or 'button'.
Problems include:
- It goes against user expectations of how the form functions
- User would not be able to submit the form while focus is on one of the inputs (although this could be remedied with more js)
- User would have to realise that this form does not have a standard submit button and realise that the link tag is the submit button (difficult for screen readers because there are no alt tags).
There is also an issue with usability for the few who don't have js enabled, as they will not be able to submit this form.
How does extremetech.com keep on getting to the front page of HN?
(this is an honest question, while I am trying to make a point, I would actually like to hear other peoples opinions)
Something always seems off about the quality of their articles compared to the other (above average) content that usually makes its way to the front page.
