- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 08:13:02 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> care about semantics. So I'm not really seeing the market forces > you're talking about. This is not a problem that will solve itself on > that end. In any case, web design works in a media type market, where there immediate customer is often the advertiser and not the consumer. It also operates in a world where technology is sold on surface appearence and even on the quality of the adverts as entertainment in their own right, rather than on the fundamental quality of the technology. I suspect, whilst users often complain about difficulty, they often have a false sense of difficulty and actually equate the real difficulty with a feeling of status in having mastered the technology, whilst condemning the simpler interfaces as difficult. Basically, if they think that something is high technology, they accept the difficulty, when they would reject lesser difficulty in something they believe is not state of the art. Older users, using computers for the first time, are not impressed by the technology and see the real difficulty and reject the technology.
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