@noamsml "Lots of this stuff sounds like designers trying to be funny but coming out as idiots themselves. For example, how is it funny that a client wants to write one page by himself. Hell, the stylesheet is already there, it's just a matter of adding a bit of content."This was 7 years ago. CSS was non-standard, Hell HTML was non-standard! You think browser incompatibility is a headache today, you should have been around in 2000. It was harsh!Plus there were no Open Source content management solutions, it was all Perl back then. I used to spend 8 hours a day writing regular expressions, in a damp office with no You Tube, no digg no iTunes!Kids today! You don't know your born!Now get off my lawn!
Paraphrased from the thread:Someone's Client: This banner ad is too heavy, make it lighter!That someone: What exactly do you mean?Client again: 8 Kilos is WAY too heavy!(I'm still puzzled at this point)Someone else: Yeah, I've had that happen to me several times, apparently the English think it's cool to refer to kilobytes as kilos.(I laugh my ass off)
It's not about accommodating users that turn off JS intentionally through paranoia, it's about creating websites that are truly extensible across multiple platforms and devices. I'm sure most of us have surfed the internet on a mobile phone of PDA, and have come across sites that would not load due to use of frames, or javascript or other technologies/layouts that mobile browsers do not (yet) support. It's also not best practice to assume that a certain language is the de facto client-side scripting language to define behaviour. It's not impossible to imagine that a modified version of JS would emerge specially for mobile devices, or god forbid that Microsoft scraps Javascript support on their browsers and implements support for their similar (but not identical) JScript. The internet has grown way beyond the boundaries of the desktop/laptop, and will continue to do so. Websites must take that into account.Of course this is all preaching to the choir if you are a professional web developer like me, but i guess not all diggers are.
tourney3p0Mar 29, 2007
Hah, you got owned by the owner's wife.
samnetworkMar 29, 2007
Man you gotta turn it off first!
assasinMar 29, 2007
@noamsml "Lots of this stuff sounds like designers trying to be funny but coming out as idiots themselves. For example, how is it funny that a client wants to write one page by himself. Hell, the stylesheet is already there, it's just a matter of adding a bit of content."This was 7 years ago. CSS was non-standard, Hell HTML was non-standard! You think browser incompatibility is a headache today, you should have been around in 2000. It was harsh!Plus there were no Open Source content management solutions, it was all Perl back then. I used to spend 8 hours a day writing regular expressions, in a damp office with no You Tube, no digg no iTunes!Kids today! You don't know your born!Now get off my lawn!
scosolMar 29, 2007
"designers" hahajuggalos.
techrevisionMar 30, 2007
that ENTIRE article explains my life completely. I'm glad I'm not the only one in the world suffering.
tiakApr 1, 2007
Paraphrased from the thread:Someone's Client: This banner ad is too heavy, make it lighter!That someone: What exactly do you mean?Client again: 8 Kilos is WAY too heavy!(I'm still puzzled at this point)Someone else: Yeah, I've had that happen to me several times, apparently the English think it's cool to refer to kilobytes as kilos.(I laugh my ass off)
timhayes7Apr 1, 2007
The bubble is back.
indorockApr 2, 2007
It's not about accommodating users that turn off JS intentionally through paranoia, it's about creating websites that are truly extensible across multiple platforms and devices. I'm sure most of us have surfed the internet on a mobile phone of PDA, and have come across sites that would not load due to use of frames, or javascript or other technologies/layouts that mobile browsers do not (yet) support. It's also not best practice to assume that a certain language is the de facto client-side scripting language to define behaviour. It's not impossible to imagine that a modified version of JS would emerge specially for mobile devices, or god forbid that Microsoft scraps Javascript support on their browsers and implements support for their similar (but not identical) JScript. The internet has grown way beyond the boundaries of the desktop/laptop, and will continue to do so. Websites must take that into account.Of course this is all preaching to the choir if you are a professional web developer like me, but i guess not all diggers are.
sarahmaddelsonMay 11, 2007
Very useful. Anyway, host is down.
yobleMay 17, 2007
Cool! I'm not impressed. Butt dugg it for some reason.
yakizzMay 20, 2007
Thanx a lot for the info. Sweet, dugg it.
scomarthaMay 21, 2007
Thanks! But I'm not surpised.
poxoeMay 24, 2007
Quite strange It makes me bored.
bushjOct 23, 2007
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