Posted by dorayme on 01/25/08 20:35

In article <Xns9A3085DB6EA05nanopandaneredbojias@85.214.90.236>,
Neredbojias <monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:12:41
> GMT dorayme scribed:
>
> > In article <Xns9A305651C44A7nanopandaneredbojias@85.214.90.236>,
> > Neredbojias <monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > So what quite is the purpose of your post?
> >>
> >> To state there are 2 major qualities to a web page - design and
> >> engineering - and it takes both to make a good one
> >
> > Well, if you think there is some distinction between two that is
> > not normally obvious, you need to explain it clearly. I can't see
> > that you have.
>
> Go back to the cup-with-a-handle thing. The shapes of the cup and handle
> are a design thing that includes utility and feasibility. Ie, can you fit
> your fingers in the handle without burning them, will the handle break, is
> drinking from such a cup easy for the drinker, etc., etc. The designer
> must, indeed, know certain things about cup construction. However, exactly
> how these goals are achieved at the fundamental level (-is the ceramic
> strong enough and watertight and amenable to mass production precesses,
> etc.) is engineering.


You have lost me, I am not kidding. It is not that I don't
understand the bits and pieces in your paragraph. It is trying to
understand themas a whole. The shape of a cup will influence
whether it leaks - it needs a bottom. Is this design or
engineering?

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dorayme

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