Great Moments in Corporate Web Presence: Samsonite

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After hours of pixel scraping and vector mapping, it seems some web developers of online shopping sites get a bit of a hardon. Wally writes:

After hours of pixel scraping and vector mapping, it seems some web developers of online shopping sites get a bit of a hardon. Wally writes:

    “I don’t have Flash 8 at work, and can’t upgrade without IT approval, which is way too much trouble.

    I was looking for luggage today–during my lunch hour, of course, which is also when I read Consumerist.

    After being asked to install Flash and declining, this is where I was redirected…”

The HTML jockeys seem to have taken the word “can” very literally.

UPDATE
: The silly link has since been fixed, this is how it used to look.

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