Unfortunatly he pays attention to one and not the other.
Most of the points he made are valid. Unfortunatly Nielson dosn't hold much credibility within the design commmunity. Many, including myself believe that he thinks the web should be vanilla plain, devoid of any asthetic value. His website reflects this.
He is a usability expert NOT a design expert.
Its not that difficult to create a site that is pleasing to the eye and conforms to usability guidelines. If he paid a 1/4th as much attention to design as he does to usability more designers would pay attention to what he is saying.
Well as a designer I would really love for mozilla to rid themselves of the (netscape created) embed tag, it has been removed from XHTML 1.0 specs. The problem is for Mozilla users to view a flash movie the embed tag needs to be there.
There are ways around this such as creating your own DTD, but the w3c validator does not do custom DTD's. or using this hideous workaround. http://www.outofthetrees.co.uk/resources/flash_ver sus_standards.php
Please Mozilla spare us from the embed tag.
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Adobe might be bad but Macromedia is worse. Take a look at Flash. Flash 4 had one interface, Flash 5 had a completely different interface, not to mention different ways of doing things, then comes Flash 6(MX) They completely revamped the interface yet again.
Perahps now that they have a common interface between all their products they will stop doing this to us.
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Most of the points he made are valid. Unfortunatly Nielson dosn't hold much credibility within the design commmunity. Many, including myself believe that he thinks the web should be vanilla plain, devoid of any asthetic value. His website reflects this.
He is a usability expert NOT a design expert.
Its not that difficult to create a site that is pleasing to the eye and conforms to usability guidelines. If he paid a 1/4th as much attention to design as he does to usability more designers would pay attention to what he is saying.
Yesterday they passed for security certification, congrats.
Today 2 new venerabilities, oops.
Well as a designer I would really love for mozilla to rid themselves of the (netscape created) embed tag, it has been removed from XHTML 1.0 specs. The problem is for Mozilla users to view a flash movie the embed tag needs to be there.
r sus_standards.php
There are ways around this such as creating your own DTD, but the w3c validator does not do custom DTD's. or using this hideous workaround. http://www.outofthetrees.co.uk/resources/flash_ve
Please Mozilla spare us from the embed tag.
Adobe might be bad but Macromedia is worse. Take a look at Flash. Flash 4 had one interface, Flash 5 had a completely different interface, not to mention different ways of doing things, then comes Flash 6(MX) They completely revamped the interface yet again.
Perahps now that they have a common interface between all their products they will stop doing this to us.