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Posted by dorayme on 02/15/07 21:10
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"fgdg" <ilovesanta@lycos.com> wrote:
> Why do we put up with web design software? Nobody makes a PDFs by
> writing Postscript in Notepad, but that is what designer's working for
> the web are expected to do. That is how far web design has come.
> Postscript is a page description language like HTML or CSS. By now we
> should have a Quark Xpress or Indesign for the web, but the only
> morsel the software industry has thrown designers after a decade of
> the web is CSS coding and a choice of Georgia or verdana. It's beyond
> the joke.
You have some things wrong. You surely must have heard of
Microsoft Frontpage and Microsoft Publisher and seen the web
export or 'save as' features in just about every modern word
processor and image software package. And then, of course, there
is Dreamweaver. In other words, there _is_ more than notepad.
And there is an implication in what you are saying that the false
(see above) situation you paint is for lack of trying. Not so.
You might be very surprised to learn of the considerable efforts
teams of clever people have made to improve the situation but
without the success you would be wanting. This should suggest
that what is being attempted here is orders of magnitude harder
than you imagine.
To put it simply, it is very hard indeed to design machinary to
deliver content in a reasonably effective and where possible
elegant way to all the devices that are made to receive such
content from the internet. It still requires educated earthlings
to do it well. Some of these WSIWIG programs can save website
makers who have mastered the software some time but in the end
this is because they know how to get by without it, they know the
limitations of such software and can compensate for it.
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dorayme
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