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> I would pay good money to watch a clear-glasses-framed youngster pitch Buffet on turning the BH website into a progressive web app. How about pitching an hou

by nkrisc 1y ago

> I would pay good money to watch a clear-glasses-framed youngster pitch Buffet on turning the BH website into a progressive web app. How about pitching an hour of work to make it easy to read on mobile? Not that I think BH cares, but in this day and age making it layout nicely on mobile is the least you can do and isn’t particularly difficult anymore.

sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago
Mr. Buffett seems like the kind of guy that makes you shut your phone off during a meeting. When you're conducting 'serious business' in your Brooks Brothers suit and silk tie at the oaken table you'll have a real computer open anyway.
- nkrisc 1y ago
  Yes I don’t expect to see the BH site in particular be mobile friendly, but there’s lots of text only sites that are terrible to read on mobile. By “mobile-friendly” I just mean set the viewport width to something reasonable relative to the font size.
  - sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago
    Most of these sites predate viewport tags. http://stallman.org/ http://stallman.org/ is another one. Though that's more likely because your mobile device is full of non-free badware or something so why encourage it.
- rkagerer 1y ago
  The "message from Warren Buffet" feels a bit slimey. They already have ads on their landing page for the same thing. That extra message comes across like a used car salesman. He could have phrased it to be informative but in a somewhat more impartial writing style.
  - sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago
    Are you really that bothered by a text-only sales pitch (which has an old-timey "I sell vacuum cleaners door to door" charm to it), or would you have preferred a full page interstitial demanding you disable your ad blocker, with a size 1pt font "I'll do it next time"? The only thing funnier than this complaint is the thread on Quora criticizing this site, with the top post specifically demeaning the site's lack of a "back-end", postulating that manually updating half a dozen text-only HTML pages in MS Word poses an unreasonable burden to the site operators. I assume a CMS, complicated database, and mountains of JavaScript would have been a more effective choice. But what do I know? Plain HTML isn't subject to the revolving door of application vulnerabilities so where is the fun in that?
  - nonethewiser 1y ago
    I mean, it's definitely a sales pitch, but it its a rational one. The GEICO one for example: >I estimate that about 40% of all auto drivers in the country can save money by insuring with GEICO. The figure is not 100% because insurers differ in their underwriting judgments, with some favoring drivers who live in certain geographical areas and work in certain occupations more than GEICO does. I believe, however, that GEICO more frequently offers the low price than does any other national carrier selling insurance to all comers. You can quickly find out whether you can save money by going to www.geico.com or by calling 800-555-2756. And it is the Berkshire Hathaway website. Pitching their services seems like something you would expect.
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mgfist 1y ago
> How about pitching an hour of work to make it easy to read on mobile? Not that I think BH cares, but in this day and age making it layout nicely on mobile is the least you can do and isn’t particularly difficult anymore. I think it looks great on mobile. It's fast as shit and I'm still just a 2 clicks away from an annual report. Frankly I often prefer the desktop layout even on mobile.
nonethewiser 1y ago
Yeah text is definitely too small on most of the pages for mobile

by nkrisc 1y ago

sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago

Mr. Buffett seems like the kind of guy that makes you shut your phone off during a meeting. When you're conducting 'serious business' in your Brooks Brothers suit and silk tie at the oaken table you'll have a real computer open anyway.

nkrisc 1y ago
Yes I don’t expect to see the BH site in particular be mobile friendly, but there’s lots of text only sites that are terrible to read on mobile. By “mobile-friendly” I just mean set the viewport width to something reasonable relative to the font size.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago
  Most of these sites predate viewport tags. http://stallman.org/ http://stallman.org/ is another one. Though that's more likely because your mobile device is full of non-free badware or something so why encourage it.
rkagerer 1y ago
The "message from Warren Buffet" feels a bit slimey. They already have ads on their landing page for the same thing. That extra message comes across like a used car salesman. He could have phrased it to be informative but in a somewhat more impartial writing style.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago
  Are you really that bothered by a text-only sales pitch (which has an old-timey "I sell vacuum cleaners door to door" charm to it), or would you have preferred a full page interstitial demanding you disable your ad blocker, with a size 1pt font "I'll do it next time"? The only thing funnier than this complaint is the thread on Quora criticizing this site, with the top post specifically demeaning the site's lack of a "back-end", postulating that manually updating half a dozen text-only HTML pages in MS Word poses an unreasonable burden to the site operators. I assume a CMS, complicated database, and mountains of JavaScript would have been a more effective choice. But what do I know? Plain HTML isn't subject to the revolving door of application vulnerabilities so where is the fun in that?
- nonethewiser 1y ago
  I mean, it's definitely a sales pitch, but it its a rational one. The GEICO one for example: >I estimate that about 40% of all auto drivers in the country can save money by insuring with GEICO. The figure is not 100% because insurers differ in their underwriting judgments, with some favoring drivers who live in certain geographical areas and work in certain occupations more than GEICO does. I believe, however, that GEICO more frequently offers the low price than does any other national carrier selling insurance to all comers. You can quickly find out whether you can save money by going to www.geico.com or by calling 800-555-2756. And it is the Berkshire Hathaway website. Pitching their services seems like something you would expect.
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mgfist 1y ago

> How about pitching an hour of work to make it easy to read on mobile? Not that I think BH cares, but in this day and age making it layout nicely on mobile is the least you can do and isn’t particularly difficult anymore. I think it looks great on mobile. It's fast as shit and I'm still just a 2 clicks away from an annual report. Frankly I often prefer the desktop layout even on mobile.

nonethewiser 1y ago

Yeah text is definitely too small on most of the pages for mobile