I mentioned a little while ago that Emm Gryner has a new website. Despite the lovely design, it’s implemented in Flash. Regular readers will know my views about using Flash for an entire website. Don’t do it. Ever.

Presuming that I can persuade Firefox not to cache the Flash, it takes me four minutes on dialup to discover that there is no new news.

And what of Emm’s abandoned RSS feed?

Well, if you click on the Journal link on the site, you get directed to the Emmbassy. A completely different site, which appears to be Emm’s personal site, more like the site she used to have. It’s completely non-Flash, and yes, there is an RSS feed for the news entries. Which is what I was looking for in the first place, except it’s a dismal badly engineered feed that contains no information apart from the news titles.

Furthermore, I now have a dilemma. If I want to get the latest about Emm, and in particular when and how I can pre-order The Summer of High Hopes, do I just rely on the news feed or do I have to do the Flash hoop jumping too whenever I remember to do it? Or perhaps I should read the RSS feed for Emm’s own journal entries too? What a mess.