I have to agree, back in the early days development of a index page was
intended to be simple, provide some wording, and some links to where you
want to go, mostly due to performance, the faster the page loads the
better, no glitter, pictures or unnecessary icons.
the only tools we had back in the early 90's was a C program one of my
team members write to convert DCF/SCRIPT to HTML (thanks to Mike Myers)
! otherwise it was all hand coded.
Carmen
On 1/21/2022 8:02 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
It's not just IBM. There seems to be a race to the bottom in web page design.
Glitz is more important than, e.g., ease of use, performance, reliability. Take
entry and validation of, e.g., credit card numbers, e-mail addresses, names,
ZIP codes; it is bog standard to not tell the user the required format and to
reject valid characters.
Not that "everybody else does it" is a valid excuse.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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The "new tools" are neither as reliable, functional or available as those the
are replacing.
I have been sayig this for the last 10 yrs (or more).
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How many online systems have IBM put out there now ?
Just when it's all seems stable it changes and we go around again.
I could mention the stacks of manuals I started with that never went down :-)
but think of the trees.
Damn ! Am I that old ?
I'm gonna download the pdf collection for now.
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