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Posted by dorayme on 11/05/61 11:43
In article
<Pine.LNX.4.62.0603280005420.2279@ppepc70.ph.gla.ac.uk>,
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Gιrard Talbot wrote:
>
> > Sometimes, people exaggerate the ugliness they see and underestimate
> > visual efficiency, practical consistency of site design from an
> > user's perspective. Remember that a web author usually knows very
> > well his own web site; a first time visitor may not and he will be
> > reliably helped by a blue border around an image.
>
> Well put.
>
Before doing too much clapping, you may need to consider exactly
what this was a response to. It may very well be that there are
clear cases where a set of thumbnails on a site are quite
obviously links. The only way to sustain your clapping behaviour
is to exaggerate and distort what I said (as you do, see below)
and simply not use your imagination (this would take longer to
explain, but I would be happy to do this if anyone was
interested).
> And (without specific reference to any particular page discussed
> here), to my way of thinking there is nothing so *really* ugly as a
> page which is scattered with "Click Here" directions, whose presence
> was only felt necessary because the author had gone to excessive
> lengths to camouflage all of the /normal/ indicators that something is
> a link. So much for misguided "subtlety" :-((
>
> regards
Talk about straw men! I am always very suspicious of religions
and orthodoxies especially when adherents have to use such
devices to clap on their fellows and make their points. I did not
talk about "Click here directions" being "scattered all over the
place" and would not dream of such a thing. You choose an
exaggerated case. Here the price of ugly borders may well be the
price worth paying. They may even not be ugly in some situations.
This is the sort of tone and message coming from the gent you are
so happy to clap: railroading all in the name of the religion on
every detail. Yes, there is subtlety and taste and design
considerations and you need to get used to these things as much
as you obviously in the finer details of the technical sides of
html and css. One size does not fit all, there are other ways to
skin a cat besides blind obedience to certain practices.
You might have more usefully said to Mr Talbot (who made some
points in his original post, several times repeated, some of them
good) that unless one has some reasons not to use link borders,
one should do so. This is a very different tone and message to
the one he made. And it is a very different one to the one you
clap.
--
dorayme
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