Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-02-01 Thread matt andrews
On 01/02/06, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a far-from-guru-status Web Standards supporter/coder (I try) I have witnessed, on this list and on another css-specific list, quite a bit of condescending and 'forced-opinion' type of replies. It doesn't make for a nice atmosphere

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/31/06, Lachlan Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: Please send Clear Blue Day another e-mail and ask them if they have any dinosaurs in their office. This is not intended as an attack on Christian, nor anyone else. Not at all. I'm dead serious on that However,

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread russ - maxdesign
As a far-from-guru-status Web Standards supporter/coder (I try) I have witnessed, on this list and on another css-specific list, quite a bit of condescending and 'forced-opinion' type of replies. It doesn't make for a nice atmosphere when looking to these lists for help. Completely agree. The

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Tom Livingston
On 1/31/06 2:59 AM, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for if anyone on this list is getting on a moral high-horse because they know about standards, I have yet to see it. From my point of view, As a far-from-guru-status Web Standards supporter/coder (I try) I have witnessed, on

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Jay Gilmore
russ - maxdesign wrote: *snip Completely agree. The most common off-list comments I receive are along the lines of "a great list, very helpful, but sometimes a bit of attitude". *snip Part of the reason I stopped reading the list was that I was getting so many threads filled with near

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Al Sparber
From: russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Web Standards Group wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:38 AM Subject: Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media As a far-from-guru-status Web Standards supporter/coder (I try) I have witnessed

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/31/06, Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL. I've been guilty of editorializing (from differing perspectives) at times and I find that slowing the trigger on the send button along with a healthy does of mindfulness goes a long way :-). When you have too many chefs in the kitchen,

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Christian Montoya wrote: Well if anyone did think my joke was offensive then I can refrain from making it again. Maybe some desensitizing is called for - on all sides? I think we can all handle a joke from time to time... :-) ...along with the standard stuff. Tom Livingston wrote: Also, I

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/31/06, Lachlan Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also appreciate that changing 6 or 8 or 10 years of coding practice and philosophy of web development is incredibly difficult Just wanted to come back to this... Let's not defend the hermit. If your practice has not changed in 6 years,

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/1/06, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if your habits haven't changed in 10 years, then would you even be making any money? Isn't the web only 12 years old? Another thing to remember is that not everyone in web publishing has any financial incentive whatsoever. We're also

Re: Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Ray Cauchi
Hi folks Can someone pleeese just put this thread to its death? There are much more important things going on in this list...this is a waste of space... I agree with Lisa, keep it positive folks... ray At 05:21 PM 1/02/2006, you wrote: On 1/31/06, Lachlan Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also

Re: ADMIN Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-31 Thread Lea de Groot
On 01/02/2006, at 4:54 PM, Ray Cauchi wrote: Can someone pleeese just put this thread to its death? There are much more important things going on in this list...this is a waste of space... No, its important that we define what behaviour is correct and acceptable in the community we are

[WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread Kat
In the AustralianIT there is an article about the new redesign of the Sunbeam website (www.sunbeam.com.au). I looked it up and it seems to fit Joe Clark's description of a Failed Redesign. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17957834%5E24169%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html My question is:

Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Kat wrote: In the AustralianIT there is an article about the new redesign of the Sunbeam website (www.sunbeam.com.au). I looked it up and it seems to fit Joe Clark's description of a Failed Redesign. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17957834%5E24169%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html Yes,

Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread heretic
My question is: is web-standards really considered a part of the professionalism of web people considering that even the IT media (AustralianIT) ignores this aspect? Well, yes. The IT Media really haven't caught on to standards. That doesn't mean web professionals haven't, or shouldn't. I'd

Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread Samuel Richardson
Have a look at the Clear Blue Day site with flash disabled: http://www.richardson.co.nz/cbd.gif That's some quality web designing there alright! heretic wrote: My question is: is web-standards really considered a part of the professionalism of web people considering that even the IT media

Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread Kat
Kat wrote: Maybe there is a member of Clear Blue Day here on this list and can explain why they have chosen what they have? I sent an email with questions about two of their decisions : why table-based layout and why not include character encoding? Their answer was that they used the

Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread matt andrews
On 31/01/06, Kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kat wrote: Their answer was that they used the table-based layout because they did not like the way style sheets render in IE, and that encoding is not utilised for search engine reasons. Wow. Those guys *really* have some catching up to do.

Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/31/06, Kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent an email with questions about two of their decisions : why table-based layout and why not include character encoding? Their answer was that they used the table-based layout because they did not like the way style sheets render in IE, and that

Moral High-horse - was Re: [WSG] Failed Redesign and the Media

2006-01-30 Thread Lachlan Hardy
Christian Montoya wrote: Please send Clear Blue Day another e-mail and ask them if they have any dinosaurs in their office. This is not intended as an attack on Christian, nor anyone else. Not at all. I'm dead serious on that However, the comment above has reminded me of an attitude I see