Comments on: Tapefailure.com – A History Recording Tool

By: Frankie Robertson

Frankie Robertson — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:50:34 +0000

Interesting but you can’t reach internal adresses as it uses the server as a kind of proxy. (meaning that you can see it’s internal adresses intrestingly). That firefox extention mentioned before looks more practicle.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:34:26 +0000

Could not get this to work for content within a forum and the stop/pause button would not funtion.

By: Champ Bennett

Champ Bennett — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:27:38 +0000

Tapefailure is an interesting expirement in uses for Ajax, but outside of site walkthroughs or training purposes, Iâ€™m not sure what else it might be used for.

How about User Testing on a tight budget? Or possibly even more useful: bug reporters can add tapefailure links to the bug tracker to help the developer get a visual idea of how to reproduce a bug.

By: Patrick Fitzgerald

Patrick Fitzgerald — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:12:33 +0000

As you say, interesting, but I can’t think of a use. For walkthroughs and training I’d use a screencast. For recording and playback the Selenium Firefox extension might be a better choice.