Welcome to the all new FCC web site!

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Fred Stiening

With all of two week’s notice, the FCC is rolling out a completely new Obama Millenial-friendly (more pictures, fewer words) web site.

https://prototype.fcc.gov/

Undoubtedly lots of stuff here will break.

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2 Responses to Welcome to the all new FCC web site!

  1. foyle says:
    November 25, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    Not completely related to your post, but I hate what is being done to the web these days. So many sites are moving to this dumb downed, minimal text formula. I assume it is all being done for the benefit of those who ‘surf the web’ on tiny smart phone screens. For just one example, go take a look at MSNBC’s site:
    http://www.msnbc.com/
    and compare it to the old look (from way back in 2012) here:
    http://web.archive.org/web/20120301004544/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

    The worst part of all of these updated sites is that I have yet to find one that offers a ‘classic look’ and they force all of us (I don’t even own a smart phone) to find information in the new crappy format.

    • Fred Stiening says:
      November 25, 2015 at 8:43 pm

      In iOS 9, Safari has an unobvious feature hidden in the “copy to” toolbar to request the desktop version of a site. Maybe half the time, the website complies.

      Just like Bill Gates missed the Internet, for the first couple years, I missed the mobile streaming trend – in part because so few streams played natively on your blackberry.

      The really enfuriatimg thing to me is websites that disable pinch-zoom, making the text too small to read. I do have a workaround, but figure it’s just a matter of time until the Apple control freaks lock that up. Ios9 appears to now have no method to views
      The source of a web page (except passing the URL to a third party website). Of course, you could buy a Mac to debug your web pages

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