Trunk Media

Event cinemas is a new movie chain that has recently bought out all of Sky City Cinemas theatres. The first thing they did was rebuild the horrendous websites, that had existed since Village Cinemas had them built, and they’ve done a pretty reasonable job of it too. There’s a couple of usability things I’d like fixed but most of it is right (and that’s saying a lot for a movie site).

Interestingly enough, I had left a browser tab open part way through one of the booking pages last night (we had vouchers so were just checking times). This morning when I turned the computer on I was greeted with these errors within that page:

Notice the XSLT missing file paths

I’ve not seen many sites built with XSLT as the front end. I know Umbraco does and XSLT is its biggest hold back. XSLT is not a programming language or even a good scripting language when trying to manipulate text (HTML) so I’m surprised to see it used here. It’s a shame also that the rendering errors didn’t trigger off a larger error message that could be captured by a full error page as these little errors all over the page don’t look great nor are they particularly useful. However, again, in the big scheme of things it’s no big deal (I’ve seen a lot worse) and at least the page is still rendering its design correctly.

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