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Websites should fail like escalators, not elevators. If your JS isn't working properly, the site should default to just dumping the text. I'll be OK dealing wit
by CaptSpify 10y ago
Websites should fail like escalators, not elevators. If your JS isn't working properly, the site should default to just dumping the text. I'll be OK dealing with the consequences of bad formatting.
/rant
- Nadya 10y ago>Websites should fail like escalators, not elevators. I like this analogy and will be stealing it for future use. It's for this reason alone my site is plain text with few images and few styles. Time to see how my site does in a CLI browser like Lynx or eLinks. :)
- CaptSpify 10y ago> I like this analogy and will be stealing it for future use. Heh, I stole it from someone on here. I purposely built my site to work with minimal unnecessary components (JS, CSS, etc), and that makes it "just work" with things like Lynx. As it turns out, making sites simple also make them more compatible!
- a3n 10y ago> making sites simple also make them more compatible! For some reason (probably that I recently ran across it), this reminds me of: "designing the system so that the manual will be as short as possible minimizes learning effort." - Mike Lesk, as quoted in Expert C Programming, Van der Linden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lesk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lesk
- pvg 10y agoIt sort of ignores the fact that escalators also fail by ripping people apart, maiming or killing them. I'll take the occasional broken back button and crappy contrast.
- Nadya 10y agoOperation failure - not structure failure. If an elevator fails to operate - you can't get anywhere. If an escalator fails to operate - you can use them as stairs.
- pvg 10y agoAn escalator shredding someone is not a structural failure. Anyway, it wasn't meant all that seriously - just that a quip about failure modes has failed to consider the failure modes.