- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:15:05 -0700
- To: "Bigelow, Jim (XHTML-Print)" <jim.bigelow@hp.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
On 7/1/04 4:57 PM, "Bigelow, Jim (XHTML-Print)" <jim.bigelow@hp.com> wrote: > > Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com wrote: >>> From: Tantek Çelik [mailto:tantek@cs.stanford.edu] >>> On 5/9/04 10:21 AM, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: >>>> Is it >>>> worth keeping in the spec at all? >>> >>> I don't think so. >> >> I do. If authors want to blink things, it's much more ... > > Clearly, this is matter of style and opinion. > > My personal opinion is that in general twirling logos, blinking text, bells, > sirens, and whistles a bad idea and show an under developed sense of style and > presentation -- similar to what Edward Tufte terms "Chart Junk" [1] -- and is > decoration intended to substitute for the hard work of producing excellent > content. I agree 100%. We can even provide a specific term for such blinking/animating abuse: <dfn>blinkJunk</dfn>. > Jim > > [1] http://www.washington.edu/computing/training/561/zz-tufte.html#Chartjunk Tantek
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