February 28, 2003

Dancing Website

Team New Zealand's boat broke in yesterday's America's Cup race (the mast snapped in half...not a good thing). Turns out their website is a bit broken, too. Looking for more information on the story, I surfed over to Team New Zealand's Official Website. Once the page loaded, portions of the page started to dance up and down on my screen. I'm pretty sure this wasn't the the developers intended. And, it looks just fine in Internet Explorer. But I'm using a Gecko-based browser (Chimera). I did a screen capture so you can see what it looked like: 1MB QuickTime Movie.

It looks like the horizontal scrolling text somehow caused the size of some elements to change (and bounce up and down). It made it a bit challenging to click on a link!