[Gllug] [OT]Reforming wayward web designers

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 7 Oct 2004, Garry Heaton wrote:
>Why
>isn't anyone demanding that the producers of devices aimed at people with
>disabilities be improved instead of demanding that the majority of web
>developers restrict their creativity?

Because the majority of Web developers' "creativity" isn't worth
tuppence. As Nielsen points out, the typical user looks at very many
Websites; even a fully able user has no particular interest in
learning the idiosyncrasies of each one.

>standards rather than impose new standards on web developers? As for
>text-only browsers, design them so that they CAN handle tables instead of
>telling every web designer not to use tables for layout.

Actually, w3m handles tables fine. However, it remains the case that
tables are a great tool for doing actual tables, but a stupid kludge
for layout.

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