re: Hello?
by Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>
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At 12:02 23/01/02 -0800, Lauren Hanka wrote:
>After all, the Web, *is* a
>visually based medium, as is television.
No it isn't. If the web has a dominant medium, its text. Not text printed
on the screen, but an abstract computerised representation of text.
I have three different browsers that I use regularly, and a couple more
that I use irregularly. One is based on a monochrome PDA. Another is a
voice browser - the web pages get read to me. I have a PC without a mouse
that I use from time to time. I sometimes print web pages for later
reading. Even looking at the visual ones they all present the information
in a radically different way.
Web pages that have been developed as `visual' pages are almost impossible
to use on anything non-standard. That's fine if it is a truly visual thing.
Most web pages aren't - they are about a blob of abstract information that
should be structured in such a way as to let the user agent render them in
a useful way.
Andrew
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