Walmart's new movie download service is trying to turn back the clock to 1996. The new service not only is Windows exclusive (get your DRM for free!) but the site requires Internet Explorer. We culled together a list of the worst offenders of the IE-only disease a while back and we've added Walmart to the list.
But Walmart's new download service isn't just limited, crippled, DRM-laden, expensive and doomed, it has something I haven't seen in ages — the dreaded spacer.gif. And I'm not talking about the site layout itself, which I can't get to because I don't have IE, I'm talking about the error page.
Yes just to show me a page telling me I can't use the browser of my choice, the intrepid programmers in the Walmart code sweatshop had to resort to the spacer gif.
I predict Walmart's movie download service will fold by the end of summer. Good riddance.
