Version 3.0 now with added bling

So after the original solution went live and then I worked on v2.0 which was very closely followed by v2.5 (just some minor tweaks and a little a small icon change). Now I am working on version 3.0 as although v2.5 should have been the last version we needed, the big boss man decided other wise.

I was questioned about the design of the current solution (which had been signed off by the same person), which was just an evolution based on the original design that was based around the law before the final changes to it. It seems that some websites have taken to creating very small boxes placing them near the bottom of your browser window for a couple of seconds and then fading it out so you can no longer see it. Because some websites that have taken this approach would be viewed as being in the same market as the company I work for we must copy then and have something that looks and works exactly as their solution does.

Now this is no problem to create this, just some new css, some new transparent png’s to give a lovely little drop shadow to the box, then some amends to the jQuery and a couple of new functions to capture the person clicking the close button before it fades out. Job done, only a couple of hours work till I had the working prototype in place for it to be given the once by the big boss man.

At this point I want to say how I think this solution makes a mockery of the law. The law was put in place to give people information about how cookies were used on websites and make them aware of what these cookies are doing. I am all for that even though it made my job a little more difficult. But this show a box for literally a couple of seconds then make it disappear!?!?!?

It’s a great way around the law whilst still being compliant, but I just feel as though it just makes a mockery of what the law was put in place to do. As the people who don’t understand cookies properly or are easily worried about them, who the law was put in place to help will just totally miss that box. So they will be none the wiser and continue on and have cookies on their machine, so what’s the point of having the law as it is doing nothing to help people apart from having an extra page about cookies and gives you access to decline cookies on a site.

Ok rant over. But I will say that at first I wasn’t to sure about how easy it would be to replicate the look of the solution on the other site, but it took hardly any time at all. I have to say I do rather enjoy playing about with jQuery, wish I could use it more at work.