Posted by Blinky the Shark on 01/23/08 22:15

Harlan Messinger wrote:

> mrcakey wrote:
>> "Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:5vpatlF1n81aoU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> mrcakey wrote:
>>>> I think we all might be wasting a lot of keypresses and bandwidth on
>>>> this issue. Perhaps people have different agenda and we should just
>>>> agree to disagree.
>>>>
>>>> My own two cents:
>>>>
>>>> Letting the user's browser control so much of the layout is a nice
>>>> goal - user's font, user's screen size, maximum accessibility etc.,
>>>> but while it's appropriate for some sites, people get paid an absolute
>>>> fortune to work on the aesthetics of a company's branding (aesthetics
>>>> being distinct from design). These people know what they're doing -
>>>> there are combinations of white space and visual elements that work
>>>> and combinations that don't. It's wrong to castigate these people for
>>>> wanting a site laid out the way they specify.
>>> People get paid an absolute fortune to work on the aesthetics of a
>>> company's headquarters. These people know what they're doing - there
>>> are combinations of texture and form that work and combinations that
>>> don't. It's wrong to castigate these people for wanting a building to
>>> look the way they specify--even if it can't be physically achieved
>>> using real-world building materials, and even if it would result in a
>>> structure that would be unsafe or unpleasant to occupy or inadequate
>>> for the purpose for which it's intended or likely to deterioriate in a
>>> very short period of time.
>>
>> Really not the same thing is it?
>
> Why do people respond to analogies this way? Is the point of an analogy
> beyond them? Or are they under the impression that an analogy isn't really
> an analogy unless it's a useless one of the form "A is to B as A is to B",
> as evidenced by their picking apart any difference they can find between
> the items being compared, regardless of relevance to the comparison? Yes,

I don't have a dog in this fight -- but with me, anyway, that usually
means that my analogy has busted their ass wide open and it's the best
they can come up with.


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