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Posted by Tony on 11/23/85 11:42
"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@ckdog.co.uk> wrote in message
news:mpkg129osu3mc95g95iopg1e457jj9a0ie@4ax.com...
> ...I've recently been doing some scripting
> for a web design company who are stacked out with work. And the reason
> they are stacked out with work is their locked down pixel perfect crisp
> design. Bad practice it may be but these guys are delivering what the
> customer wants. And unless you can manage to change things through
> legislation the customer will continue to decide how web pages should
> look and perform.
It is quite ironic: HTML started life as a document markup language, when
the concept of a document was shaped by printing on paper. In a traditional
document you start at the beginning, go on until you reach the end, and then
stop (with occasional asides for footnotes). HTML allowed interactive
documents that could never exist on paper - a printout would bear the same
relationship to the live document as a stuffed animal does to a wild one.
So the concept of a document changed, and HTML, which had been the leader of
change, was dragged behind.
In the traditional document, form and content were relatively easy to
separate. A complex modern "document" such as a page on a large e-commerce
site, makes enormous use of purely visual clues to guide the user. I have
no doubt that even in such a case, there is still a content that can be
separated from the form, and I even believe that it is a good thing for the
designer to try to do it, but it might not be a trivial job.
So it's hardly surprising that the person who pays wants as much control as
possible over form as well as content, and doesn't want to pay for the time
and thought of someone to take away some of their control over the form.
--
Tony W
My e-mail address has no hyphen
- but please don't use it, reply to the group.
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