On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 14:16 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 11:37 AM -0400 4/14/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > >Sure, but designers head the beck and call of paying customers. Just > >like we coders do. Sometime you just can't win the argument with a > >suit :) > > I didn't know you wore a suit. :-) > > --- > >BTW, why can't a browser window be pixel perfect? > > What's "pixel perfect"? When an element must be arranged to an exact pixel of position. For instance, cases where borders must have exactly 1 pixel margin between the border and the edge of some other element. Sounds picky and it is, but is something that is desired at times. > --- > >The more interactive the web becomes, the more we see web applications > >mimicking desktop solutions, > > On that we agree -- however, desktop solutions are being influenced > by web and vice versa. This is a dynamic process where ideas, needs, > and solutions merge and continue to change. > > But don't think that current desktop solutions are the end-all of all > application development. I remember when DOS types claimed that using > a mouse would never catch on. Everything is changing. > > --- > >Regardless of whether you think the web should be used for these kinds > >of applications is irrelevant, because others do think it can and should > >be used in this way. > > Nonsense. What he thinks, what I think, and what you think does > influence change. You certainly don't have all the answers and > neither do I, but our dialog, our practice, our methods, our post, do > provide direction and example. What's the point of this dialog anyway > -- to amuse ourselves? No offense, but I would rather be playing > Ghost Recon than debating this issue with you. What he thinks matters to him just as each person's thoughts matter to them. In the greater ocean of ideas, no single person can extinguish another person's idea. As such, what he thinks is irrelevant when someone else pushes from the other end and he is incapable of pushing back. Why is he incapable of pushing back? Because he can't stop that person from doing what they want to do. As such what he thinks (about another's thoughts) is irrelevant to that person unless he can persuade that person and every person who thinks the same thing to abandon that thought. I meant what he thinks is irrelevant in the above context... I thought it would have been apparent. > I do this because I believe that this is the "right" way to educate > and to give back for those who helped, and continue to help, me. > > --- > >Throwing cups of water back into the ocean to > >prevent the tide from coming in just doesn't work. > > But, it sure helps to keep your boat afloat. :-) That's a sinking ship :| > Besides, what tide are you talking about, the css tide? Everyday, via > my attendance to the css-discuss list, I would estimate that there > are more people coming on board the css boat than choosing tables. The tide of change. The tide of people using the web for whatever they see fit despite any original intentions of the Web's use. This wasn't about CSS at all, it's about the medium as a whole :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
