-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 06:24 am, ed tharp wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 03:41, Charlie M. wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > September 14, 2003 01:15 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > > I'm happy to know I ain't the "Old Timer" on this list. 46 a > > > > week ago today is young compared to you and Tom. <g> > > > > > > > > Just kidding! I do agree about the colour on those web site > > > > though. Not enough contrast. > > > > > > > > Charlie > > > > > > I must be a spring chicken at 27. :-) > > > > > > I also agree about the color. It offends my sense of style and > > > usability. Form and function are equally important. > > > > Whippersnapper! <g> > > > > Gotta watch for we old farts around here Brant. Youth and > > enthusiasm is never a match for experience and treachery. > > > > "Trust me." > > > > When did web designers (or many others for all that) ever pay > > attention to form and function when they could have what they think > > is glitz and pizazz? > > hell ain't that what the "www" is all about? "glitz and pizazz". I > still kinda miss the days it was all about substance and text... like > before 1992. when knowing background colors did not mean a thing, but > ascii art was what _reallly_ mattered. <g>
Waxing nostalgic _is_ fun isn't it? lol But I like the fact that HTML can help convey a depth that text and ascii art can't. Now if web designers would realize that what seems "eye catching and expressive" to them is what some people would call a pointless waste of bandwidth they might just design pages that get the message and any emotional context they're striving for across without giving all us old farts eye strain and/or a freakin' headache! To say nothing of the fact that all that glitz and pizazz, and those flashing screaming colours, are a bit tough to take for epileptics. I know, it's unlikely. Style over substance is why we have so many utterly stupid ad campaigns and "reality TV" programs. <sigh> Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-8mdk 11:41:13 up 19:34, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.32, 0.33 Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn't end. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ZKr2G11CaRuZZSIRAkVkAJ4rBcO+tFON5O3bLHuisliIeOjDxwCgkIf7 L48RyqjadRvsBjQ/JBhoZXI= =odJb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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