RE: *****SPAM***** Re: Errors on Apple Applescript website
RE: *****SPAM***** Re: Errors on Apple Applescript website
- Subject: RE: *****SPAM***** Re: Errors on Apple Applescript website
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:01:49 -0800
At 09:19a -0500 12/15/2003, Jeff Handy didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
> 98% of all web sites suck. Including Apple's.
That's a strong statement. Why would you say that?
Because in my experience, it's true.
The following items mark a site as one that sucks:
* "This site best viewed with browser x"
* "We have to optimize for IE and Netscape."
* "This site is optimized for a screen resolution of x"
* It requires JavaScript
* It requires frames
* It doesn't work in Lynx or has image filenames as alt tags
* It doesn't scale to fit my browser window (~500px wide)
* Page titles say "Welcome to Adobe GoLive"
* Page titles are the same on every page
There is no technical reason why sites should have those problems; it
is a sign of idiocy/inhumanity on the part of the webmaster and/or
his/her boss(es).
I get a lot out of many well designed sites including Apple's own.
Surely, this is an exaggerated statement.
No, it's not. You simply don't care that Apple dictates what your
browser preferences should be. I have different preferences, and
Apple's badly-designed site creates unnecessary conflict with them.
Just because you did not notice the problems does not mean that the
problems do not exist.
> ::sigh:: Those of us who care about (and "get" the Web) are a
> rare breed. :/
Looking at your site, I'm not sure where you get off saying that. What
exactly is it that you "get"?
That Web pages were intended to render legibly and work in ANY browser.
TimBL's vision is not dead with me. Visit my site with any browser
you choose, with any settings you choose. Do the same with Apple's
site. See which one remains as legible and functional regardless of
how you access it.
Apple has a very functional and elegant site for the most part. Is it
perfect? No; but show me one that is: informational, simple, pretty,
sticky, dynamic, intelligently searchable and with as much data as a
company like Apple has to handle.
How about Google? (Dunno what "sticky" means...)
My site is dynamic. If you go to the Comm page from /walter/ or /ds/,
you'll notice that its color matches the preceding page. Cool enough
for ya?
(It's a new script; I haven't updated all the other pages to use it yet.)
It doesn't have to be perfect if all of the fundamentals are there.
All good web sites will always be works in progress. "Site
perfection is in the eye of the viewer".
I don't look for perfection; I look for usability in any Web browser
which supports RFC 1866.
-boo
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