We can’t wait for the Mac version and developers to publish plugins! This changes everything and anyone who makes it about marketing or hype just doesn’t get it - and they don’t matter. Sorry, but it’s true.

Suddenly, the “browser wars” seem silly. It’s about the future. Let’s all enjoy this moment.

It seems to retail for no less than $50, but if one were to purchase it via Bed, Bath, & Beyond, while citing the $5 rebate/discount available from the manufacturer, they’ll match that price; Add that to the 20% coupon going around, and it’s still a pricey purchase, but not quite so.

Installation was quit painless. There was a very slight slow single drip leak from the primary attachment which tightened up on it’s own after a couple weeks. It would be advisable not to tighten too tight initially as the plastic ball valve could easily be damaged.

The product experience is fantastic; The handheld mount works great, though not often used; Several modes of spray, all function well, though not often used; No sensation of lack of water pressure at all; And a great “pause” feature which further reduces water flow (though not completely - the primary shower faucet is still required for that) for those shower moments (while soaping) when running water is actually making the task more difficult.

Round off the experience with a cute 4-minute timer, and there exists the possibility of a 6 gallon shower. This particular installation and usage tends to produce showers in the four to 8 minute range.

The Dirty Secret

The packaging for this product is terrible. It is mind-numbing how something so considerate in purpose could come in such an offensive container. Follow the well-meaning crowd and send them an email requesting that they change to more sensible packaging. And if you care to - notice the lady on the page before.

Next you might want to join these two experiences together; seamlessly serving the appropriate experience to the appropriate agent.

Then you might devise an elegant system for getting inbound deep flash links - in the swfAddress style - to push via the server to the non-flash experience. And then you might use Javascript to push agents back into the deep flash section.

This situation helped to illuminate something previously unknown: the fragment anchor (the #foo) is not part of the request object sent by the browser. It is simply not sent. There exist some agents that have sporadic support for sending it, but it’s not part of the spec.

So sorry differently-abled agents (and bots), we can’t get you from a deep flash link to the appropriate page in the experience you can parse. You can still get there by clicking, but we can’t do it for you.

PS
There is an ingenious method proposed to at least reduce it to one click with many inline and css exposed named anchors with a link, but it would present it’s own degradation and maintenance issues.

Vanessa Fox, Nathan Buggia, Sharad Verma, Maile Ohye, Jeff Pollard, Colin Cochrane, and more!

How could one go wrong?
It was great to get industry confirmation of practices that seem sensical. It should help make the business case for the return on being accessible. Many tools, tips, and other deliciousness was disclosed.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/
http://webmaster.live.com/
http://janeandrobot.com/
http://searchengineland.com/
http://www.sitemaps.org/
http://web-sniffer.net/
http://seebot.org/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/33

And again, much more. Hearing intelligent people speak passionately about elegance in design and implementation is inspirational. It really can be quite simple.

http://commandshift3.com/leaderboard/losers
http://commandshift3.com/site/folktrash.com

It began as a simple exercise.

Oh, google reader, interesting. Huh, a delicious badge? Hmm, that’s an interesting idea. And thus it was that years ago base integration points were established with the ever present “later, clean it up later” was thought, and swiftly forgotten. And so it sat for two years or more.

Perhaps the strangest feeling of all is the remembered fanaticism which used to exist for this domain. There are some samples in the archive of which more will certainly come (many more local copies exist), but what isn’t preserved is the strange obsession.

How fascinating a phenomenon, that progression from brute importance to guilt ridden expense. It is still lost how the importance began and faded and is reborn, such as it is, but ours is not to question why, right?

A’course many things need to be finished, since the experience is technically still broken.

It is likely much forward will be looked to since the potential things to say list tends to grow much more than zero when there is a painless way to publish. For now, food stuffs require eating.