Posts by David Horton

BBC iPlayer continues platform sluttiness with Virgin Media launch

HD for all?

How about a HD option on the P2P service? Why is it whenever convenience improves quality suffers? iPlayer is great but even on P2P the quality is not quite as good as the good old terrestrial analogue system.

Come on BBC I want HD without having to fork out for a Sky box!

HSBC e-payments system goes titsup

@Bruno Girin

So you are suggesting that all the small and medium sized companies using HSBC for the payment gateways should be investing in an infrastructure to provide near 100% uptime since their quite large multinational bank shouldn't really have to? Anyway a whole weekend outage already puts them in the region of around 99.5% already for this year, not great!

Open AJAX frameworks not fit for 'power users'

Accessibility

AJAX does not equal bad accessibility in the absence of Javascript (screen readers) if it is well written it can degrade gracefully. As is often the case it's the use of technology not the technology itself that's the problem.

Sweet, sweet smell of comments in code?

@Simon Neill

...are you serious or not? I thought you were joking at first but by the end of your post I was not so sure.

Oh by the way out of uni less than six years, CS degree and mostly C# and Java programming so maybe I am biased but, just because you have been doing something a long time does not always mean you are any good at it!

Line rental cost a barrier to broadband

Line rental is part of the cost!

Since you can't get ASDL without a BT line how do all the broadband providers get away with ignoring the £11ish charge for it when advertising, particularly when comparing prices with cable where you don't have to pay it. I understand there needs to be a charge to cover line rental but the way it is sold makes me feel I am paying for a phone I don't want or need. Especially when my line only seems to be able to carry a small fraction of what it should.

If only I had cable in my street, I’d be straight there poor customer service or not!

Re: upgrading the local networks – that would cost so much money, think about how many homes there are in the UK, how many miles of cable, who would pay?