Dear public libraries,
About your website…
There’s one old issue (with some of you), which is that the library picture or banner is so high-resolution that it’s the last thing on the page to load, and takes quite a while. (It’s remarkably easy to resize images so they’re more suitable for web pages…)
Let’s not even talk about your use of Comic Sans. Yes, I know, it’s friendly and all…
But this is about Java.
Some of us–millions of us, I’d guess–don’t allow Java in our browsers, for reasonably good security reasons.
When we hit a library website with a Java item (or, as I just saw, three of ’em in a row), the browser hangs, we get an error message, and if the site’s persistent, we keep getting the error message.
Oh, eventually we just get an error message on screen and can go on about our way.
But really…do you really need Java? Is it that crucial for your home page to be so dynamic–crucial enough that you’re willing to annoy security-conscious patrons?
Your call, of course.
