Posted by Sherm Pendley on 07/04/07 21:01

David Segall <david@address.invalid> writes:

> The post
> that I responded to did not qualify "any resolution" and it typifies a
> number of posts in similar threads that make pious statements about
> how a web page should be designed

Pious? Spare me. Piety concerns religious belief - the belief that a
thing is true, when in reality it's not known for a fact whether it's
true or not.

The people making pious statements are the ones who claim to know all
about random Joe User visiting their site - what browser he's using,
whether he's disabled JavaScript, etc. They believe in something that
has not been proven as fact.

Advocating "any resolution" design is in fact the exact opposite of a
pious statement. It's a recognition that I *don't* know anything about
my visitors or their browsers, and a refusal to delude myself with an
irrational belief that I do know these things.

sherm--

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