2006/10/15, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Gabriele Romanato wrote: > > >>> http://www.css-zibaldone.com/the-css-switch-project > /november-2006/shapes/ > > > Experiments are not useful strictu sensu. that's the basic difference. I > > can't ignore this difference. > > your criticism is very similar to literary criticism: would be this poem > > "useful"? utilitarism, I suppose. > > or marxian criticism: everything should be "useful" to the underlyining > > structure of society. otherwise, is useless. on the web, every single > layout > > should be "useful". that's the underlyning pragmatism of the WWW. sorry, > > this is not my point of view. > > > Not mine either :-) > > All tests and experiments that one can derive something useful from - > now or later - are, by definition, _useful_. > This is true even if the useful part ends up being knowledge about > something's lack of usefulness or other shortcomings, so replicating old > and "useless" experiments is a useful timesaver on our way to mastering > web design - being it HTML/CSS based or a mix of whatever. > > It is a fact that many progressive and/or corrective ideas in real world > web design are the result of "useless" experiments - often combined with > even more "useless" experiments. > > Example: I'd call the following experiment completely useless... > <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_demo_float_03.html> > ...yet I use the methods on display there to get browsers in line - all > the time. That experiment also gave me plenty of ideas about when *not* > to use those methods, which is a most welcome side-effect. > > Another "useless" example: > <http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html> > ...which parts certainly can be put to good use. > > So, I rather see more "useless" tests than fewer on display. They are > useful to someone. > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no
thank you very much Georg. . but Christian has his reasons that cannot be ignored. I'll have to take an extra care when I post my tests. excuse me again. :) -- http://www.css-zibaldone.com/the-css-switch-project/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
