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Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by ajross »

tga wrote: post #5

Kit Kat's homepage is currently a monstrosity. Scrolling down the page pushes a new history URL every half page, using the back button is then essentially broken (on Firefox at least) and actually getting back to the page that unfortunately sent you there requires something like 20 clicks. Not so bad joke otherwise, but the history hijacking made it a crappy experience and I couldn't close the tab quickly enough.

Honestly: you're being a snob. The page is designed to be scrolled down once, chuckled at, and closed. And I did, and it works for me. Sitting on our high horses and demanding that Nestle's corporate IT department churn out a site worthy of YC-driven-multi-round-venture-funding is counterproductive and unkind. They had a cute idea, probably on short notice, and they got it done.

I will say that I'm actually really liking this sort of whimsy. It's distressingly rare in the bigcorp world (even in candy, I guess) to see companies poke fun at their established products like this. I like it.

I still won't eat them though.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by dmix »

tga wrote: post #5

Kit Kat's homepage is currently a monstrosity. Scrolling down the page pushes a new history URL every half page, using the back button is then essentially broken (on Firefox at least) and actually getting back to the page that unfortunately sent you there requires something like 20 clicks. Not so bad joke otherwise, but the history hijacking made it a crappy experience and I couldn't close the tab quickly enough.

Outsourced design agencies hired by big corps aren't usually known for their respect of web accessibility.

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by ctdonath »

lake99 wrote: post #3

Looks like Android has done it too: http://www.android.com/kitkat/

Nothing says "solid, responsive, enterprise-grade, consumer-pleasing data access" like candy.

(Yes, I know this complaint is old, and dessert/snack is the Android naming theme. Nobody is buying in because of the meme; a lot of people are opting out because of it.)

Re: Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page

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Post by 1123581321 »

tga wrote: post #5

Kit Kat's homepage is currently a monstrosity. Scrolling down the page pushes a new history URL every half page, using the back button is then essentially broken (on Firefox at least) and actually getting back to the page that unfortunately sent you there requires something like 20 clicks. Not so bad joke otherwise, but the history hijacking made it a crappy experience and I couldn't close the tab quickly enough.

I wish developers were more aware of ReplaceState, which updates the URL but deletes the previous state. I usually put a condition check in any state saving that checks to see which is more appropriate. For example, in a page of popup videos associated with URLs I might push the first state so the user can hit back once to get the normal URL, but replace from then on so the number of back actions to leave never exceeds two.
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