Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 08, 2004 09:16 AM
Anybody using MS Frontpage has immediatly lost any right to ever talk about web design. This is how bad it really is.
I agree. Regardless of the fact that millions of small business owners are using Frontpage to promote their businesses without being web design professionals, we must denigrate them into the ground for 1. creating web sites that work with 95% of the browsers in use, and we must 2. prevent them from engaging in coversation about wysiwyg web tools, because us cognoscenti of web design simply will never accept the fact that small business owners wish to promote their businesses without becoming experts in xml and php, and won't pay us for the priveledge of creating a site that is 100% w3c compliant, and yet doesn't render properly in 95% of the browsers out there.
That is exactly what small business owners need, to rake over the coals their customers that visit their sites, for not using a browser that meets with the approval of our ideals.
This attitude is evident on the Quanta mailing list. Any mention of wysiwyg brings out the complaints, even though their implementation of wysiwyg (not real wysiwyg) can be turned off. The mere fact that wysiwyg (or their version of it) is available as a feature on Quanta is enough to elicit howls of protest and complaints.
Sort of like the howls of protest of colorization of black and white movies years ago. It didn't matter that you can turn color off on your set, w-e m-u-s-t p-r-e-v-e-n-t o-t-h-e-r-s from viewing movies the way they like them, instead they must view movies in their proper format! They dare to not conform? That proves how 1. stupid they are, and 2. how they don't deserve to see the movies.
wysiwyg? That's for cowards and losers. No exceptions.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 08, 2004 09:16 AMI agree. Regardless of the fact that millions of small business owners are using Frontpage to promote their businesses without being web design professionals, we must denigrate them into the ground for 1. creating web sites that work with 95% of the browsers in use, and we must 2. prevent them from engaging in coversation about wysiwyg web tools, because us cognoscenti of web design simply will never accept the fact that small business owners wish to promote their businesses without becoming experts in xml and php, and won't pay us for the priveledge of creating a site that is 100% w3c compliant, and yet doesn't render properly in 95% of the browsers out there.
That is exactly what small business owners need, to rake over the coals their customers that visit their sites, for not using a browser that meets with the approval of our ideals.
This attitude is evident on the Quanta mailing list. Any mention of wysiwyg brings out the complaints, even though their implementation of wysiwyg (not real wysiwyg) can be turned off. The mere fact that wysiwyg (or their version of it) is available as a feature on Quanta is enough to elicit howls of protest and complaints.
Sort of like the howls of protest of colorization of black and white movies years ago. It didn't matter that you can turn color off on your set, w-e m-u-s-t p-r-e-v-e-n-t o-t-h-e-r-s from viewing movies the way they like them, instead they must view movies in their proper format! They dare to not conform? That proves how 1. stupid they are, and 2. how they don't deserve to see the movies.
wysiwyg? That's for cowards and losers. No exceptions.
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