Re: xmlhack developer news from the XML community

Sally Khudairi (sk@zotgroup.com)
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 19:05:47 -0500


I knew this was going to happen.

As mentioned before, we are reverting back to HTML 4.0

It's on its way shortly. I appreciate your patience.

Flames aside,
Sally

----- Original Message -----
From: Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>
To: Sally Khudairi <sk@zotgroup.com>
Cc: Dan Kohn <dan@teledesic.com>; Fork (E-mail) <fork@kragen.dnaco.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: xmlhack developer news from the XML community

> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Sally Khudairi wrote:
> > Ah, XMLHack -- a production of Edd Dumbill, who is now Managing Editor
of
> > XML.com
> >
> > The article in mention was penned by ZOT's own [and others' too] Simon
St.
> > Laurent http://www.zotgroup.com/who.html#simonstl
>
> Uh, just what the heck is going on with that site?
> http://www.zotgroup.com/ takes me to
>
> http://www.zotgroup.com/index2.html
>
> -- an *entire page* generated using only JavaScript, which is a
> blank page for me because i don't happen to be running the
> required version of JavaScript. Come to think of it, this is
> probably a technique i would apply if i was *trying* to make a
> web page accessible to as small an audience as possible.
>
> Why can't it just be plain readable content?
>
> Other beefs with this page (even if it *were* readable):
>
> - I'd get tired of someone inserting a big ugly 30-odd-line
> ASCII art banner at the top of all my pages really quick.
>
> - Why does the JavaScript code expose the paths on your
> local hard drive?
>
> As i wrote in an internal message about a uselessly frilly
> company Web application recently:
>
> "Useful, working applications will beat frilly,
> non-functional applications every time. Good looks
> are indeed nice to have, but under no circumstances
> should usability and reliability be sacrificed for
> their sake. Wherever this happens, regardless of the
> parties involved, you can rest assured that i will
> forever rail loud and long against such absurdity."
>
> Accessibility! Usability! Please!
>
> nothing personal -- it's just the principle of the thing,
>
>
>
> -- ?!ng
>
> "All models are wrong; some models are useful."
> -- George Box
>
>