Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/11/07 00:02

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> 1001 Webs wrote:
>> On Nov 10, 7:20 pm, "André Gillibert"
>> <tabkanDELETETHIS...@yahodeletethato.fr> wrote:
>
>>> There's a difference between C++ and CSS.
>>> Most C++ developers are somehow trained and produce quite correct
>>> applications.
>>> But, most CSS developers are highly ignorant, and have fundamentally
>>> wrong
>>> design principles, such as "it should render identically eveywhere".
>> I fail to see what's "fundamentally wrong" with that.
>> It is a basic graphic design principle.
>> When you design a magazine or newspaper for example, every page should
>> look the same in terms of structure.
>> You can play with the headers, image positioning, etc. but all pages
>> should follow the same pattern.
>> That's why you use Templates and grids.
>
> Ah! But that reveals the root of your error concerning web design and I
> am an artist and graphic designer. The web is not paper. An overused
> statement but none the less true. With magazines, newspapers, posters,
> or whatever, there is one constant...the paper. As the designer in such
> media the "viewport", the dimensions of the piece of paper, is known and
> unchanging. It is is integrally part of the design process, if you are
> any good ;-) You have a static canvas upon which to build your design.
>
> With a webpage you have no such constants, no matter how much you (the
> big universal 'you') wish to deny it. Holding you breath. Tantrums on
> the floor. Jumping and screaming will not change that fundamental fact
> that if the content is on the web, as the designer, you have no control
> over the size of the viewport used by the users. Additionally, nor what
> fonts your page is rendered in. Or in what color depth your images with
> display or if your image will be seen at all! Or even if your text is
> displayed at all for it might be a screen reader.
>
> Now you can try and make your page "work" only for the parameters that
> you have narrowly defined hence making it difficult for conditions
> outside your constraints. But all that will accomplish is deny access,
> "closing the book" for some users that might have been potential
> customers, which is usually contrary to the original purpose of
> "publishing" the page on the Web.
>

Ah, Jonathan, but you don't understand him. He claims he's a graphics
designer. But the only real proof he has presented is the idea he can
control every aspect of the visitor's experience. But then again, that
is normal for poor graphic designers. They have to control the
experience, instead of enhancing it.

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