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Dan Bricklin: Democratizing the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bricklin-for-everyone dept.

securitas writes "This NY Times story featuring Dan Bricklin discusses the social impact of the Web on small businesses (Mom and Pop shops) and how the Web is leaving some behind. Bricklin wants to change that and make creating Web sites as easy (*cough*) as using a PC."

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  1. Yup. Sure. Uh-huh. by nege · · Score: 2, Redundant

    That is like saying that people who are really great at math and numbers make more money as accountants so we need to make sure that math is easy to do, or that being an accountant is easy. There are many resources out there to become a great accountant from books to classes, and there are many great resources out there to be a good web designer, again, from books to classes to just plain practice. Sure you could give them a nice WYSIWYG editor or something (and Microsoft has done some of this...) but it has been shown that these tools do not actually make great code (leaving in bad code, or simply using tags that arent generally accepted by all browsers, W3C compliant). As with anything, if you want to be able to make a living with it, you will need to actually LEARN something to do it well.

    Sorry if this is not exaclty what the article says...but thats how it is when /. posts articles on sites that impose logins etc.

  2. Re:Oh dear God, no. by drnlm · · Score: 0, Redundant
    But we already have easy to use (if not easy to use well) tools for that. What they're taking about is easy to use creation of "Buy my cute pet" sites.

    Of course, it debatable whether that's actually any better.