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Posted by mbstevens on 05/08/06 02:06
Michael Laplante wrote:
> Why give up real
> estate to a banner or irrelevant images?
A web page, unlike a magazine page, is quickly expandable by links to
other pages. It is easy, however, to crowd a web page with too much
stuff. Irrelevance should of course be avoided, but you're throwing
in a misrepresentation of the best simple pages, which avoid
irrelevance. This makes me think that Jukka is right --
that you may well be trolling.
> The Internet is this rich medium, but could the "maximum accessibility"
> concept reduce it to the most banal denominator?
Web pages are about access to information and media -- media as rich as
you want -- from plain text to moving pictures. Don't confuse the
means of access with the thing to be accessed.
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> Also, for certain sites -- entertainment sites primarily -- the medium IS
> the message so the look becomes rather more important than the text.
The 'look' you find important can be accessed, as downloads and links to
rich media, from an accessible and quick page.
One more often see sites where the 'look' gets in its own way,
making the page slow to load, inaccessible, or just irritating.
The visitor needs to be given the choice whether to download
rich media, and some explanation about the pit she is
falling into before following the link.
> The philosophy of some people here is that websites should be
designed > for maximum accessibility.............
> Technicians here quote things about "accessibility,"
> "let end user decide" etc.
This is a practical matter, not a technical one.
It is a mistake to believe that technicians are incapable of
appreciating the humanities.
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mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com
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