Posted by Travis Newbury on 11/25/05 14:42

dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> said:
> Nothing in best practice
> stops use of the interaction or flair you refer to.

Yea it does, but that's a different argument.

> But it
> requires time and patience to do both jazzy frontend and solid
> backend stuff.

Something that does not exist in corporate America. The american
culture does not have time to wait for people to learn. They want
it, and they want it now. And if something shinier comes along
they will suddenly turn direction.

> The folk going for the (perhaps more superficial)
> popular styles etc can get it without quite so much effort using
> crappy source and/or wsiwigs.

Folks going for the superficial are called Americans. Remeber
superficial, and wanting things right now, and sudden changes of
whims are unbelievably bennificial to capitalism. It helps the
economy grow.

> Division of labour thing going on: they are hell bent on the
> output and anything will do to make it how they want it (and
> that means mainly in IE). If it mostly works, why spend time on
> validation issues (they think... or "don't think"!) They get
> good at providing reasonably quickly what people find
> immediately attractive - this makes for a marketable skill more
> quickly acquired....

Yep you are exactly right.

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