Is there a pill for technological growing pains?
Web authoring is supposed to be simple. Seamless. Brainless. Painless. For example, I shouldn’t have to block Netscape 4 from accessing my site.
So what then are all these notices popping up all over about optimising your web site for this-and-that device?!?? AOLTV - I don’t particularly like AOL for its crappy customer service and shitcan integrity (though they do get high — though grudging — marks for top usability, almost wiped out by another slam for lack of accessibility.) So why do they think that I’ll make a version of my site just to accomodate that handful of users? Screw that. The W3C has published both standards and guidelines for web authoring and user device interpretation - use those!
And for the rest of you who are like me…who have had it up to here with all this platform specifity…enjoy.
Keywords: | web standards | usability |
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