As usual, it's clear most people here have posted without even clicking on the link.
W3C standards are NOT about making everything pretty at the expense of accessibility - in fact they enable GREATER ACCESSIBILITY. Pages built entirely using CSS have a minimum of presentational crap mixed in with the HTML, so more primitive applications and platforms can understand them better than they could a page written in perfect HTML 3.
WITH FULL CSS SUPPORT, NESTED TABLES ARE A THING OF THE PAST. Nested tables are an abomination, necessary since HTML started to be (mis)used as a presenational markup language - not a structural one. Tables are what will make your life difficult when you browse with lynx. Pages built with CSS will look fine on lynx.
Dilbert is just plain funny, mostly because the situations in the comic are so freakin' unreal that it's impossible to imagine yourself putting up with them...
No. I have been in situations where exactly the same things have happened in my office on a given day as happen in the Dilbert cartoon for that day.
It's getting to a stage where Dilbert doesn't mirror life - life mirrors Dilbert.
Speaking as someone who works alongside 30-40 graphic designers, the reason Flash will win is simply that the content-creators want as much control as possible over the final output.
They don't like HTML - it looks different on PC's and Macs. They don't like Javascript - people can turn it off. And then next version of a flash player will not render their work obsolete (open standards are all well and good, but unfortunately implementations of them vary hugely - contrast Flash Player which will render everything faithfully (and is already installed in >80% of browsers).
By and large, Flash content is produced by people who formerly (or still) produced Director content for CD-ROMs. Not programmers, and not OSS advocates.
My (scuba) diving club has given up on "waterproof" electrical hardware (we're talking radios, GPSs, etc) for use on our inflatables because most of it just isn't. Instead, we now buy non-waterproof gear and keep it in sealed (big plastic clamp, nothing wimpy) transparent bags.
My point is that you can probably make it waterproof fairly simply after you've packaged it all up - you don't necessarily need the case to be environment-proof.
The "bag" idea also means it's easier to replace damaged housings; they'll get broken whatever they're made of.
I bet they said the same thing about the television. Why, since the television was invented, families don't sit together trying to relieve intense boredom by faking an interest in senseless chatter!
I think television is a big part of the whole 'information overload' thing - there are a lot of people who find it very hard to think of something to do other than watch mindless crap on TV nowadays (personally, I've given it up. Really). Haven't you ever walked into a room and found three or four people just sitting staring blankly at the telly, for no other reason than "it's on"? Because if you haven't, I envy you.
And again, there are bad things to be said about the automobile - the legendary American dependence on cars, for example.
Your point about the people misusing technology being the cause of it all is valid - but unfortunately that seems to be most people - OK, so you're using the internet to find out about other cultures, different music, new technology (and so am I, and probably most people reading this) - but we are surely the exceptions? (This is "news for nerds", after all!)
And, like the article says, I don't really see a way to stop the rot either - following the advertiser/punter arms race to its conclusion gives us a disturbing picture of a society saturated with commercial crap trying to get its messages through to a population so desensitised that it doesn't care about anything much at all. <shrug>
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As usual, it's clear most people here have posted without even clicking on the link.
W3C standards are NOT about making everything pretty at the expense of accessibility - in fact they enable GREATER ACCESSIBILITY. Pages built entirely using CSS have a minimum of presentational crap mixed in with the HTML, so more primitive applications and platforms can understand them better than they could a page written in perfect HTML 3.
WITH FULL CSS SUPPORT, NESTED TABLES ARE A THING OF THE PAST. Nested tables are an abomination, necessary since HTML started to be (mis)used as a presenational markup language - not a structural one. Tables are what will make your life difficult when you browse with lynx. Pages built with CSS will look fine on lynx.
Read this. Do it in lynx if you want.
No. I have been in situations where exactly the same things have happened in my office on a given day as happen in the Dilbert cartoon for that day.
It's getting to a stage where Dilbert doesn't mirror life - life mirrors Dilbert.
(Time to find a new job..)
I think suing the RNA because they promote firearms is not more (or less) silly than suing 2600 because it promotes DeCSS
Yes! Sue the RNA! The genetic material allowing cells to reproduce really is the root cause of all our problems!
Finally, a legitimate use for Pentium III serial numbers!
Speaking as someone who works alongside 30-40 graphic designers, the reason Flash will win is simply that the content-creators want as much control as possible over the final output.
They don't like HTML - it looks different on PC's and Macs. They don't like Javascript - people can turn it off. And then next version of a flash player will not render their work obsolete (open standards are all well and good, but unfortunately implementations of them vary hugely - contrast Flash Player which will render everything faithfully (and is already installed in >80% of browsers).
By and large, Flash content is produced by people who formerly (or still) produced Director content for CD-ROMs. Not programmers, and not OSS advocates.
My (scuba) diving club has given up on "waterproof" electrical hardware (we're talking radios, GPSs, etc) for use on our inflatables because most of it just isn't. Instead, we now buy non-waterproof gear and keep it in sealed (big plastic clamp, nothing wimpy) transparent bags.
My point is that you can probably make it waterproof fairly simply after you've packaged it all up - you don't necessarily need the case to be environment-proof.
The "bag" idea also means it's easier to replace damaged housings; they'll get broken whatever they're made of.
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Tim.
So soon even the Microsoft marketing machine will be describing its new apps as "Running under Powered"..?
They really do need to start running these names by people before announcing them.
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Yes! The excellent Dune crap got my ROTF. Well done.
Rest of the show was pretty cool too.
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I think television is a big part of the whole 'information overload' thing - there are a lot of people who find it very hard to think of something to do other than watch mindless crap on TV nowadays (personally, I've given it up. Really). Haven't you ever walked into a room and found three or four people just sitting staring blankly at the telly, for no other reason than "it's on"? Because if you haven't, I envy you.
And again, there are bad things to be said about the automobile - the legendary American dependence on cars, for example.
Your point about the people misusing technology being the cause of it all is valid - but unfortunately that seems to be most people - OK, so you're using the internet to find out about other cultures, different music, new technology (and so am I, and probably most people reading this) - but we are surely the exceptions? (This is "news for nerds", after all!)
And, like the article says, I don't really see a way to stop the rot either - following the advertiser/punter arms race to its conclusion gives us a disturbing picture of a society saturated with commercial crap trying to get its messages through to a population so desensitised that it doesn't care about anything much at all. <shrug>
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