[Gllug] Off Topic Not a Plug

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 2 Oct 2001, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>yesterday. He said it was too expensive to build two sites, when
>the number of people using the minimalist site was so small. I pointed
>out that if he designed it right in the first place, he only needed to
>make one site, and it would work everywhere.

The trouble with this is the browsers - including NS4 - whose support
for CSS is terminally broken; a CSS site doesn't degrade gracefully or
even ungracefully in them, but can be unusable - like tables in late
Mosaics.

>That's not to say I wholeheartedly approve of Flash. I think in 99% of
>places it's used, the site would be better off without it. But for the
>small proportion of sites that do need something like it, Flash is a
>pretty good option.

Hmma. I've seen some good things done in Flash, but not one of them
was a Web site.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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