Yuck: another BBC News cosmetic change

I think this is what happens when you let a programmer loose with client-side design ;-).



I'm all for enhancing the user experience with nice uses of javascript etc, but this really does feel like it's been added for the sake of adding it.

• Visually, it looks horrendous. I'm no designer, but even i can see that this just doesn't work with the rest of the page.


• Why does it even need to be on the page at all?

I understand that they want to push their audio/video stuff, but this isn't the right place for it.

It's quite interesting to reflect upon my reaction, which was quite emotional over a small little change to this page (which happens to be my start page so i see it often). I kinda can empathise with the Netscape.com users who've had their old trusted site transformed into something "new and trendy" without actually wanting it to happen.

I wonder how long it'll take before it gets changed :).