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>>"At it's heart, web design should be about words." >No. There's some strange dissonance going on in my head reading this on a site with practically no image
by sageikosa 13y ago
>>"At it's heart, web design should be about words."
>No.
There's some strange dissonance going on in my head reading this on a site with practically no images at all.
Once images went inline, the web's focus moved from content to presentation, much to its detriment (in my humble opinion). We progressively became more at the mercy of the page designer rather than the copy editor.
- BHSPitMonkey 13y agoI don't think posting a comment counts as "web design". Nobody said "writing comments shouldn't be about words".
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- sageikosa 13y agoThere is a "design" to this page. It just doesn't include pictures, videos, hover bars, animated banners, nor advertisements for weird tricks to lose weight. This site is about the flow of textual information. I like a usable application interface as much as the next guy, and am quite happy to see native interfaces (even if they aren't my beloved WPF ;-) rise back into prominence so that the hyper-text transfer protocol can get back to carrying hyper-text.
- BHSPitMonkey 13y agoThe people who built HN did the web design you speak of; Web design is not what users posting comments are doing.
- sageikosa 13y agoYes (except I am not speaking, I'm whispering). I never implied that posters and commentators were doing web design while using this site; I started with a comment on the dissonance of reading a statement refuting the web as a textual medium on a site that is effectively only a textual medium.