On: Amazon Business

[veidr]

Seriously, look at the typographic alignment in the very first word of this paragraph (which happens to be "Amazon"):

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/img15/amazon-busi...

It has always seemed freaky to me that Amazon still uses images for paragraphs of text. I have assumed it is because the real-world web is more broken than I know.

[sukilot → veidr]

Amazon has an incredibly tightly packed homepage with images and text. that's an obscene challenge to layout without obscuring content or missing up proportions. The inside pages use regular layout and are more liberal

[r00fus → sukilot]

Luckily for us, their iOS app and mobile browser experience is really nice (only I can't see some comment metadata like up/downvotes).

Only time I visit Amazon on a desktop is when I happen to deep-link into a product page from a review site.