-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/2012 03:13 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On 3/21/2012 3:06 PM, Fred Drake wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Guido van Rossum<gu...@python.org> >> wrote: >>> That doesn't mean the web designer shouldn't think at least twice >>> before specifying a smaller font than the browser default. >> Yet 90% of designers (or more) insist on making text insanely small, >> commonly specifying the size in pixles or (if we're lucky) points. >> >> Not sure there's any lesson to be learned from this, aside from >> designers really having it out for anyone who needs to read. > There are bad designers, or more to the point, designers who favor the > overall look of the page at the expense of the utility of the page. > That doesn't mean all designers are bad, or that "design" is bad. > Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Designers who care more about utility / accessibility more than their hipster karma seem to be a tiny minority in the current web world (without even counting "web designers" who think a Photoshop document is the final deliverable). Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9qPBEACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5fMwCcD8cHLDch/cIlBpVY4htmlDN4 fzQAmgNUVVn+uByZRBI22TB7ETdkLzmP =ZHdF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
