Posted by Mark Parnell on 10/16/31 11:17

Previously in alt.html, Travis Newbury <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> said:

> No I am saying the general "feel" of the group is one size fits all.

OK.

> And I don't say that is wrong, only that I personally don't like it. I
> personally like fun, color, pizazz, "the wow factor" movement,

I don't mind that stuff in the right context, but the content still
needs to be accessible. If the fancy stuff *is* the content, that's a
different matter, but in most cases it isn't. Just the other day I was
playing Flash games online - I don't expect them to be accessible to
anyone not using Flash - but they are a rare exception, and I went
looking for them specifically.

> And I
> completely understand I (because of PC) am on the losing side of that
> argument. I see the web I like going away and being replaced with what
> "I consider" a bland politically correct piece of vanilla paper...
>
> Obviously some see that as a good thing.

I don't see it doing that at all, and no - it wouldn't be a good thing
if it did. There's nothing preventing most sites from both having the
"pizzazz", *and* being accessible, except the cluelessness of the
webmasters.

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Mark Parnell
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