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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 01/23/08 18:43
mrcakey wrote:
> "Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:5vpatlF1n81aoU1@mid.individual.net...
>> mrcakey wrote:
>>> I think we all might be wasting a lot of keypresses and bandwidth on this
>>> issue. Perhaps people have different agenda and we should just agree to
>>> disagree.
>>>
>>> My own two cents:
>>>
>>> Letting the user's browser control so much of the layout is a nice goal -
>>> user's font, user's screen size, maximum accessibility etc., but while
>>> it's appropriate for some sites, people get paid an absolute fortune to
>>> work on the aesthetics of a company's branding (aesthetics being distinct
>>> from design). These people know what they're doing - there are
>>> combinations of white space and visual elements that work and
>>> combinations that don't. It's wrong to castigate these people for
>>> wanting a site laid out the way they specify.
>> People get paid an absolute fortune to work on the aesthetics of a
>> company's headquarters. These people know what they're doing - there are
>> combinations of texture and form that work and combinations that don't.
>> It's wrong to castigate these people for wanting a building to look the
>> way they specify--even if it can't be physically achieved using real-world
>> building materials, and even if it would result in a structure that would
>> be unsafe or unpleasant to occupy or inadequate for the purpose for which
>> it's intended or likely to deterioriate in a very short period of time.
>
> Really not the same thing is it?
Why do people respond to analogies this way? Is the point of an analogy
beyond them? Or are they under the impression that an analogy isn't
really an analogy unless it's a useless one of the form "A is to B as A
is to B", as evidenced by their picking apart any difference they can
find between the items being compared, regardless of relevance to the
comparison? Yes, I understand that they aren't *exactly* the same, but
in ways *significant to the analogy*, they are the same: The designer is
NOT the all-consuming expert and authority, and in fact may be entirely
ignorant of extremely important considerations.
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