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Firstly and this may suprise you you... We know you exist. Yes you with a tinfoil hat, you under a repressive corporate regime. You keep trying to make your pre

by demarq 12y ago

Firstly and this may suprise you you... We know you exist. Yes you with a tinfoil hat, you under a repressive corporate regime. You keep trying to make your presence known through ranty blog posts, angry comments thinking we dont know you exist. We know but we found that not only are you a minority but our lives as designers and developers are a million times easier if we just ignore you. Yes i know you want to surf with vim or IE6 but thats your choice. You make your bed now lie in it but dont drag the rest of us with you!

vacri 12y ago
Ranty, angry comments? Pot. Kettle. Black. The lives of designers and developers are a million times easier if you just ignore accessibility requirements, too. But you know what? If you can't make a good design that caters to a variety of consumers, then you're not a good designer. Design is about melding form and utility, not just making something pretty. The less utility you have, the more you are an 'artist', and the less you are a 'designer'. Besides, if you don't care about anything but the most common, optimum user, you may as well return to the "This page best viewed at 800x600 on Netscape Navigator" '90s.
chriswarbo 12y ago
> You make your bed now lie in it but dont drag the rest of us with you! By taking an extreme position for the user, but not for the designer/developer, you're not making a fair comparison. In the same way that designers don't force all visitors to calibrate their monitor colours before opening the site in Photoshop, to be as "authentic" to the "experience" as possible; likewise those of us browsing in Emacs or whatever don't expect your Unity-powered Minecraft clone to work for us. What we do expect is that text-heavy, 'unavoidable' sites (eg. for governments, banks, etc.) aren't built inside Unity-powered Minecraft clones.

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Firstly and this may suprise you you... We know you exist. Yes you with a tinfoil hat, you under a repressive corporate regime. You keep trying to make your pre

by demarq 12y ago

vacri 12y ago
Ranty, angry comments? Pot. Kettle. Black. The lives of designers and developers are a million times easier if you just ignore accessibility requirements, too. But you know what? If you can't make a good design that caters to a variety of consumers, then you're not a good designer. Design is about melding form and utility, not just making something pretty. The less utility you have, the more you are an 'artist', and the less you are a 'designer'. Besides, if you don't care about anything but the most common, optimum user, you may as well return to the "This page best viewed at 800x600 on Netscape Navigator" '90s.
chriswarbo 12y ago
> You make your bed now lie in it but dont drag the rest of us with you! By taking an extreme position for the user, but not for the designer/developer, you're not making a fair comparison. In the same way that designers don't force all visitors to calibrate their monitor colours before opening the site in Photoshop, to be as "authentic" to the "experience" as possible; likewise those of us browsing in Emacs or whatever don't expect your Unity-powered Minecraft clone to work for us. What we do expect is that text-heavy, 'unavoidable' sites (eg. for governments, banks, etc.) aren't built inside Unity-powered Minecraft clones.