Comments on: Netflix Does It Again http://ezknight.net/?p=195 Programmer and Writer Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John http://ezknight.net/?p=195#comment-2382 John Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:19:54 +0000 http://ezknight.net/?p=195#comment-2382 We noticed the same thing and it pisses me off. Why did the TV episode description need to change? My guess is lazy coding. Somewhere in making the update, they broke the part that recognizes the current selection is a TV show and fetches the description of the current episode and rather than fix the problem, they just band-aided it and removed the section of code that treats TV shows differently than movies. I honestly wish there were a way to downgrade.
Another thing I noticed was that it seems like it’s reloading the interface every single time I load it. I’m wondering if they’ve simply made it pull all of the elements from the web somewhere. That would explain the slow loading and partial display of certain elements sometimes. It would also allow them to update the interface without the hassle of going through Nintendo and updating the program on the console.
With that in mind, I’m going to do a little poking around with wireshark and a proxy to see if that is the case. If it is, perhaps I can figure out a way to use a proxy to reformat the incomming xml/html and fix any bugs or simply cache visual elements locally to speed up the load time.

Thanks for posting this… I was beginning to think I was the only one who noticed the changes.

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