For some unknown reason IndyCar.Com decided to change their website. Specifically Timing & Scoring. This is where you can see the info on every driver: lap times, laps since pitting, time behind leader & other drivers, etc.
Last year it was well done, color coordinated. you could see everything easily. This year for some reason they decided to mess with the layout. For instance: Timing & Scoring & position on track(a map showing every car) are two different links. Why do it that way so I can't switch back & forth? Worse was the decision to make the screen small & unreadable unless you full screened it. Meaning you couldn't switch back & forth with the map or the forums on Speed or Track Forum unless you minimized T&S. That's not a good system. Plus T&S just simply looks ugly. One guy on the forum said it looked like a teenager made it with a webcam in his basement. I have to agree. Not attractive at all.
This is part of the obsession with changing things year to year that everybody does. Websites do it. like Gawker which screwed up all their websites. What was wrong with the way they were? Browsers do it. Firefox 4 looks OK. But App Tabs only work in theory. I had to re-pin Gmail like 3 times today. C'mon. Heck the Dollar Tree next door moved everything around. Like where's the bread?!
There was no need to change what worked last year. That goes for the series itself. We'll see how double-file re-starts work. The start was awful, but hey, it's the first race.
Last year it was well done, color coordinated. you could see everything easily. This year for some reason they decided to mess with the layout. For instance: Timing & Scoring & position on track(a map showing every car) are two different links. Why do it that way so I can't switch back & forth? Worse was the decision to make the screen small & unreadable unless you full screened it. Meaning you couldn't switch back & forth with the map or the forums on Speed or Track Forum unless you minimized T&S. That's not a good system. Plus T&S just simply looks ugly. One guy on the forum said it looked like a teenager made it with a webcam in his basement. I have to agree. Not attractive at all.
This is part of the obsession with changing things year to year that everybody does. Websites do it. like Gawker which screwed up all their websites. What was wrong with the way they were? Browsers do it. Firefox 4 looks OK. But App Tabs only work in theory. I had to re-pin Gmail like 3 times today. C'mon. Heck the Dollar Tree next door moved everything around. Like where's the bread?!
There was no need to change what worked last year. That goes for the series itself. We'll see how double-file re-starts work. The start was awful, but hey, it's the first race.
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