gmiller - 9:36 pm on Jan 6, 2001 (gmt 0)

The one that's driving me nuts right now is the Marvel Comics web site. They've been releasing Ultimate Spider-Man on the web in installments in, you guessed it, Flash format.

Naturally, they gave it a UI that took me quite a while to figure out. The download is horrendously slow. Nonetheless, I started reading it via Mozilla a few months back and all went more or less OK.

Then they converted the navigation to Flash, too. That's where things started to go *really* wrong. When I open an installment with NN4, it crashes during the download. When I visit the site with a Mozilla nightly, it crashes during Flash detection. When I try it with NS6, it works, but I often have to manually edit the URL because the Flash detection sends me to the "please install Flash" page. I don't use AOL, but their page has a warning that it doesn't work with the (IE-based) AOL software either.

I guess that demonstrates why Marvel's had financial difficulties the last few years (decades?).