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19 July, 2004
Towards the end of last week, Odeon sent its Evil Lawyers in Black over to the Accessible Odeon website, forcing it to shut down.
For those unaware of the background, the Accessible Odeon website was set up because the official Odeon site is severely broken: if you don't use IE5 or IE6, on Windows, with Javascript enabled, then you can't view the site. The Accessible Odeon site scraped real-time live data from the broken official site and displayed it, without the need for Javascript, particular browsers, or anything fancy. In an attempt to show Odeon that there was Another Way, it also "borrowed" the Odeon logos, CSS styles and general look and feel from the official site, and this seems to have been what's really got up the nose of the Evil Lawyers in Black.
Well I was sorely miffed when the Accessible site closed down. An Odeon cinema is the only one I can easily get to, but I refuse to run a piece of software as dangerous as Internet Explorer on my computer. The solution? Write my own version of the Accessible Odeon website. To try to stave off the Evil Lawyers I made sure that it was immediately obvious that my site wasn't in any way associated with the real Odeon site, other than using their data.
So here it is, in all its plain-text glory: The (Re)Accessible Odeon website. It's still very much a work in progress and quite possibly buggy, so let me know if you find any weirdness. Other than that ... enjoy!
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