A Sun online executive tells me that the left-hand menu - on the home page of its new site - has not changed, apart from the graphics being replaced with text. And in answer to my "not seeing the point" of its string of new features, he says that Desktop Keeley already has the highest number of downloads of any application the paper has offered previously.
There are other independent commentators who take a positive view too about the site's revamp, such as Ethan Eismann, who calls it "downright magnificent" for creating "one of the most technically advanced, and unique desktop experiences with Adobe AIR."
Similarly, Daniel Wabyick applauds. "Ok, this is not the most tasteful AIR app, but it is technically one of the best. By leveraging Flash transparent video and AIR transparent windows, they've managed to create an app that cleverly interacts with your desktop experience... Hats off to The Sun."
So maybe the commenter to my critical post this morning, chopsmcginty, may be right when he calls those of us who are less enamoured "a bunch of web snobs."
However, even if the Keely application wows the geeks, it still fails to lift my skirt (though it does hers, I notice). Meanwhile, I wonder what the Daily Mirror is planning. I hear it is on the verge of a very radical revamp indeed.
