Lol, with your earlier reaction, I kinda guessed you were a computer science guy! I’m guessing you are a back-end developer?
But I do feel compelled to stick up for myself though... I’m primarily a front-end graphic/web designer. I like sites that are clean, aesthetic, not cluttered with flash (incidentally, I did think this was a HK thing), optimized for search engines, semantically coded with minimal front-end latency. Any web designer will look at the markup in the site you’re sticking up for and tell you it is very 90’s. Without turning this into a critique, it takes the ‘design’ out of ‘web design’, uses tables for layout, internal functions, inline styles and fails all w3c validation and accessibility standards. Fair enough, it is easy to find things and this is very important, I just think it can be improved further and made faster, better looking and to standard.
I think you’re taking this too personally though. I never doubted HK’s computing, telecoms etc, I know it is well ahead... 3rd fastest net connection in the world etc. I merely said that the website designs were several years behind and I maintain that from what I’ve seen and researched. Please don’t take this as a personal dig, it isn’t, I’m just commenting on what’s in front of me.
Lesson number 1. Don’t pee off a Computer science guy in HK!