On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:13:14PM +0000, via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 22:03:31 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >Am I the only one who thinks "Responsive Web" sites, with their > >characteristic "Replace all meaningful information with wasted space, > >meaningless photos, and trite slogans in giant text", are an > >absolutely horrible design that do more to drive people away and > >trigger their "this looks like an ad, I'll subconsciously ignore it" > >instinct? > > I dislike 'em, but survive if it is limited to the frontpage. Meaning: > I desperately look for a sensible link in the visual mess of > non-information. I also get the idea that they probably don't really > have anything to offer and hired an ad company with an incompetent web > designer to do it who arrived at the design by buying a premade page > from some other's company's catalogue, then replaced the photos and > charged a fortune for it... OR worse: that they are using a PHP-based > CMS. Then I start to feel sorry for them and put all my skepticism > aside for the benefit of the doubt and hope that I at least find a > sensible pdf-file in there somewhere.
I used to love pdfs in blissfully ignorance... until I recently looked up the format. You wouldn't believe this, but did you know that it's actually possible to embed a *video* in a pdf file? Embed another pdf inside a pdf in a hierarchical substructure? Run arbitrary JS code from a pdf? (Which, btw, is *not* the "official" JS, but Adobe's own hackneyed version thereof.) If you were insane enough, I bet you could implement an OS inside a pdf file. Or an FPS. Content-less website splash pages seem pretty tame compared with that(!), unfortunately. T -- Written on the window of a clothing store: No shirt, no shoes, no service.
