Supreme Webification

Today the Supreme Court (aka SCOTUS) announced changes to their web site:

• They have a new URL. It used to be www.supremecourtus.gov. The new one is supremecourt.gov. 
• They are also taking charge of their own web work, reclaiming it from the Government Printing Office.

Let's see how the Supremes are doing:

via Supreme Court of the United States

1. You're likely to notice the blank spot in the center of the page. The site has a widget that loads a series of images. The widget is slow and, inexplicably, leaves a blank panel while it's loading the next nice picture.
2. The Javascript fly-out menu for links drops below the bottom of the browser window. You have to scroll down to see the remaining menu items.

More challenging is the PDF press release. It seems that they created a document in some fashion, printed it, and scanned it back to PDF. As a result, the link to the new URL is garbled and useless.

via http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SCt-website-release-3-18-10.pdf
The link points to, and I quote, www.su~remecourt.~.
And, finally, they still have fixed this - Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n, but I'm not expecting anything on that any time soon.