Re: WAP <.Fuzzy is confused>

Hello friends and captain:

>*Please* correct me if I'm wrong here, but the Internet (and web) have,
>since day one, been about content - not graphics -.

You're not confused - just too intent on displaying your sarcasm......

>Also (and again please correct me if I'm wrong here), *properly written*
>HTML doesn't give a hoot about screen size. It matters not a bit, until
>you
>So . . . I'm not really seeing the problem here. Would someone please
>"enlighten" me?

And I'm not entirely sure why it might be directed towards a comment that I 
made in a previous email. 

Although I'm relatively new to this, I'm well aware of the power of content 
when it comes to information on the web or anyhere else.  Having spent the 
last 20+ years in the printing and ublishing industry, I fully understand the 
power of the written word. And I'm also very aware that the web was built 
upon the premise of exchange of information that early on had very little to 
do with the cheapest airfares to Spain or naming your own price for groceries 
in the neighborhood supermarket.

In my humble opinion - I spelled that out for you Captain just to emphasize 
the point - the web has now developed as primarily a marketing tool - selling 
goods and services.  Sites are not being developed by the academics of the 
world but by marketing departments intent on sellling the greatest number of 
goods in the shortest possible time to the largest number of people.  And 
making lots of money at it.

The growth of the software has been in the display end - attracting attention 
with all the whizbangs and gizmos that can fit onto a page.  Now, we also 
talk of "repurposing" - taking print content and just reformulating it for 
the web.  Only now, it is generally dawning on designers that their 
presentations are interfering with the selling message.  Which gives rise to 
such authors as Jakob Nielsen (wrote Designing Web Usability which I happen 
to be hungrily reading right now) and other web usability analysts.

If there was no problem, these books, these authors, these coders/designers - 
such as yourself - wouldn't be screaming for attention.  And gradually, these 
issues will be resolved.

So maybe it was a bit of a truism - rather than a cause for your arrogance - 
for me to say that we need to depend on content.  

My only other comment - I've followed your voice since joining this list.  
You've obviously been travelling this road for a long time and have a lot to 
teach - and there are those of us - such as myself, who are willing to 
listen, be guided, and learn.

Come down off the mountain a bit - your message will be more easily 
understood.

- a humble student,
     Jeff Kopito

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