I was wondering about the stock price for Google today and out of habit went to finance.yahoo.com to see a chart. Specifically I wanted to see the 1 year chart. I don’t have Flash installed on my primary browser, which triggered Yahoo Finance to redirect me away from the 1 year chart page to http://finance.yahoo.com/chart/flash#symbol=GOOG;range=1y instead. Which looks like this:
Seriously, that is what the page looks in my Chrome 16 beta browser without Flash installed.
If you are going to continue using Flash for these charts, why on earth would you redirect people without it to such a useless page?
Update : @azitzer (product manager for Yahoo Finance) noticed this and to their credit fixed it. Still requires Flash to get the regular graph, but at least now the redirect doesn’t send you to a mostly empty page.