[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not a question so much as a discussion topic -- is there a particular
"look" to standards websites? Is there an aesthetic developing from
the technologies we use?
Many standards websites have subtle gradients in backgrounds -- is
this because designers are confident in using PNG files which do
gradients better for smaller file sizes? Standards websites tend to
use rounded corners -- is that because of moz-border-radius? And of
course we see fewer designs these days which are just Photoshop files
locked into a complex table -- designs with DIVs are more likely to
have breathing space than try to be pixel-perfect.
So, is the technology dictating the look, or are all these things just
accidents of history because some major relaunch like the
stopdesign/AdaptivePath redesign of Blogger looked that way?
Maybe this can be identified as a trait in the many designs of
developers who implement web standards, but I can't see how these
attributes form marks of identification of attributes of adopting web
standards (I realise this is not necessary what you are saying).
I think it's more to do with what is achieved by following web
standards, and what pitfalls are avoided. I would tend to say that
developers that adopt web standards are much more aware of both the
pitfalls of poor web development process and the benefit of better SDLC
process and also are much more focused on real world usability and
accessibility issues.
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/benefits/
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/reference/web_standards_for_business.html
etc, etc.
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Geoff Deering
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