Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
Why does an extremely simple, automatable task like check if
posted grades have changed require a human being to spend valuable time
poking buttons (or programming a very faithful simulation thereof)?
Because software these days is mostly about chasing buzzwords and
fashion trends, and not about information.
The current crop of crap appeals to the same mentality that thought
the BLINK tag was a good idea.
(Aside: I've just discovered (for myself) that if you search for
blink tag, Google makes all matching occurrences blink.)
I, actually, really wanted to use blink or it's CSS equivalent, recently.
Mere weeks ago.
It was in an embedded HTML-based UI with minimal content, where the
prime goal was just to get the user's attention by screaming
OMG SOMETHING IS BROKEN DOESN'T IT LOOK BROKEN TO YOU!!! at them.
Blinking text is a lousy way to convey information that someone actually
needs to parse, but a screenful of blink is great way to look broken.
I was pretty frustrated when I saw the hoops one needs to jump through
to make blinking text[1], these days, since the browsers
finally neutered both blink and text-decoration:blink.
Thanks to everyone who just couldn't restrain themselves--
you ruined it for us all, guys. I'm waiting for Mozilla to
save us from UPPERCASE YELLING BY FORCIBLY downcasing everything
Footnotes:
[1]: http://www.jwz.org/jwz.css?ver=1
cf. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/08/a-light-has-gone-out-on-the-web/
--
'tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
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