Re: [vox] The Dotties
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Re: [vox] The Dotties
It's like Eric Sate' turning down the Prix de Rome, writing something like
this:
It would have been better to never have even been nominated.
:-)
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org):
>
> > the dottie awards just suck. the people in charge of dottie awards
> > haven't faintest clue about what a good website is.
>
> Historically, in the years leading up to the dot-com boom and bust, Web
> weeniedom was an easy-employment refuge for intellectual-lightweight
> desktop publishing people. And that, of course, is exactly how Web
> design was invaded by the wackos who think it's both possible and
> desirable to control the fine details of browser presentation from the
> server end.
>
> I tried briefly to reason with such people, but you can't: They've
> seen exactly what they want on their Quark Express... I mean Adobe
> Go-Live screens, and refuse to believe that they can't and shouldn't
> try to dictate that exact appearance on all Web browsers. They'll
> gladly throw away all standards and dictates of common sense towards
> that end. Their twisted little minds are just wired that way.
>
> You're right: Being praised by them should be considered an
> embarrassment.
>
> --
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> Rick Moen few minutes, I start screaming 'No, you fools!' and have to go
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> Computer Programs_ to de-stress." -- The Cube, www.forum3000.org
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