| From: | Andy Hall |
| Date: | 13 Mar 2001 at 21:51:03 |
| Subject: | Re: Javascript Does'nt work on my amiga ??? |
Hello Matt
On 13-Mar-01, you wrote:
>> Pages with no obvious place to click are annoying and one goes elsewhere
>> quickly.
>
> Most of this stuff is for HTML-designed presentation rather than active
> webpages. Imagine, you have a kiosk running Win2K and IE5.x, and want
> it to look as little like Windows or a web browser as possible, and have
> lots of pressable, clickable, non-image buttons.
I'd rather not, you're not the only one here who does HTML based frontends.
IE, and Windows in general became a nightmare when I was trying to write a
frontend. for a project I've beeen working on.
> They have uses. Saying "oh, but links and form objects support these!"
> is dumb, because they're f**king UGLY.
And Headings aren't?
>> nd explicit, so that the busy user can see what to do at a glance.
>
> Busy users tend not to use ugly pages.
I don't understand how the page you described can be anything but ugly.
Besides if a user is busy then surely a simple efficient page layout is
better than a tarted up, unclear one?
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