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Another Blog Criticism of AFR:
http://blogs.reactive.com/2008/0 ... t-in-html-text.html
Further investigation unfolded they use a fixed width font,create two layers, each with half of the letters and non breaking space (NBSP) interlaced between every real character. To put this together they use CSS to overlay the two panels and then they get the final text.
Think of all the issues with this technique. The use of a floating div tag to overlay one set of content over another would create a massive strain on server and bandwidth. Coupled with this, the accessibility of the site is non existent. Any screen reader would take the text as is and would output absolute gibberish successfully rendering the site unusable in this instance. Finally using your web browsers search facility to find copy in the body is useless too.
The underlying issue I have with this technique is the lack focus the AFR gives to usability. The Australian Blind and Vision statistics indicate that as of 2004, 0.25% of the population suffered from complete vision loss and 2.36% suffer from some soft of visual imparity. Read what you want into these stats but either way the Australian Financial Review is severely isolating a good proportion of the population with their site.
It's quite amazing that the AFR have gone to all this trouble to stop a user from copying and pasting an article. Especially given that anyone with a background in Javascript could circumvent this in about 5 minutes.
So the Australian Financial Review have successfully implemented DRM but at what cost? Well they’ve thrown out all accessibility, usability and readability not to mention any chance of a Google index. |
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