Gabriele Romanato wrote: >>> http://www.css-zibaldone.com/the-css-switch-project/november-2006/shapes/
> Experiments are not useful strictu sensu. that's the basic difference. I > can't ignore this difference. > your criticism is very similar to literary criticism: would be this poem > "useful"? utilitarism, I suppose. > or marxian criticism: everything should be "useful" to the underlyining > structure of society. otherwise, is useless. on the web, every single layout > should be "useful". that's the underlyning pragmatism of the WWW. sorry, > this is not my point of view. Not mine either :-) All tests and experiments that one can derive something useful from - now or later - are, by definition, _useful_. This is true even if the useful part ends up being knowledge about something's lack of usefulness or other shortcomings, so replicating old and "useless" experiments is a useful timesaver on our way to mastering web design - being it HTML/CSS based or a mix of whatever. It is a fact that many progressive and/or corrective ideas in real world web design are the result of "useless" experiments - often combined with even more "useless" experiments. Example: I'd call the following experiment completely useless... <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_demo_float_03.html> ...yet I use the methods on display there to get browsers in line - all the time. That experiment also gave me plenty of ideas about when *not* to use those methods, which is a most welcome side-effect. Another "useless" example: <http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html> ...which parts certainly can be put to good use. So, I rather see more "useless" tests than fewer on display. They are useful to someone. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
