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I hope this works out gangbusters for you! Some feedback on the homepage. Its current form can be improved. 1) To watch the video in the section, "Here's h
by IncRnd 5y ago
I hope this works out gangbusters for you!
Some feedback on the homepage. Its current form can be improved.
1) To watch the video in the section, "Here's how it works", I need to load javascript from navattic.com. JS, expecially from an external website, is something that should not be required to view a video. This tells me there is likely tracking of hiring managers who only want to watch the how-to video.
2) When I enabled JS for navattic.com, the video's first frame was shown. But, to actually watch the video I had to input a work email and my name. I closed your webpage at this point. I could have clicked the REQUEST DEMO button if I were ready to engage your service. However, I wanted to learn about your offerings by watching your video. Even clicking your about-us link didn't work, since it scrolled me right back down the page.
My suggestion is to not try to get every visitor's email account information before you tell them how your product works. It might help raise the quality of engagements to provide your information first and then let hiring managers click on REQUEST DEMO.
- lelandfe 5y ago> JS, expecially from an external website, is something that should not be required to view a video You expect everyone to self-host videos?
- IncRnd 5y agoNo, and that's not how the Internet works - JS is not required to access other computers in order to display videos. A video file can still be located on a CDN [1] in addition to being self-hosted. This is an extremely common operation that websites perform. You can look at the docs for any CDN. They all tell you how to do this. [1] CDN: Content Delivery Network, i.e. youtube, cloudflare, or any one of the others. There are multiple CDNs used by this very article's webpage.
- lelandfe 5y agoNice. Let's see if I can restate this well enough to ward off further condescension from you: Would you similarly be up in arms over the external JS were the site embedding a YouTube video? It also requires JS – as does most (all?) major video hosting platforms.
- rhizome 5y agoFor all of its faults, YT is a known quantity.
- IncRnd 5y agoJS is not required to load a video over the Internet. When a CDN (or 2nd origin) without the modern proper CORS headers is used, you are forcing your code to use JS or same-origin resources. Access-Control-Allow-Origin is the solution designed into browsers for this. That means that the Youtube CDN doesn't work with modern CORS for HTML video loading of resources by offsite webpages. Other major, more modern CDNs implement this.
- lelandfe 5y agoI've been trying to show that your stance is at odds with how the majority of the web consumes videos – disable Javascript and attempt to load a video from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Streamable, or any other major video hosting platform. I'm not clear why you feel CORS factors into this.
- garyjlin 5y agoAh ok so that flow needs to be sharpened a bit. It's actually not a video, it's an interactive demo where you can play around with a small subset of the app in a controlled environment. It's a series of guided DOM snapshots of the actual app itself, but ultimately I realized it's not clear at all. I'm debating on just not having that interactive demo at all, and instead to be a bit clearer in the rest of the site about what we do, and how we do it.
- IncRnd 5y agoEither works for me! I don't have a current need, so I wanted to understand your offerings for when I a future need develops.