Comments on: News Wire: Developers Don’t Design?

By: Edge

Edge — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:22:58 +0000

Try getting “kuler” to work if you use Firefox. Goto their website you linked to above and you get this message:

“this content requires adobe flash player 9. would you like to install it now?”

So you answer “yes” and guess what happens? The stupid software pops up a “installing adobe flash plauer” dialogue which says:

“the following applications are using files that need tp be updated by the setup. close these applications and retyr to continue: firefox (all versions)”

I think I’ll just stick to something that actually works: colorblender.

By: krdr

krdr — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:57:59 +0000

Will they stop with developers does not design! Gash,… I tought that everyone knows about demo scene in mid 80ies

By: davidjmedlock

davidjmedlock — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:04:23 +0000

@creole: Agreed! Excellent article and good food for thought. I had a client comment to me the other day that I was extremely fast in responding to and fixing problems in a system. I told him that our choice of development platforms was the key to getting things done quickly and therefore inexpensively… I’m sure he appreciates the money he saves.

By: creole

creole — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:40:17 +0000

The article about Coldfusion (A New Vision for ColdFusion) is VERY well written and extremely intriguing. I’ve been a CF programmer for the past 5 years and I hate hearing people say “coldfusion sucks” or “it’s not secure” or “XXXXX language is faster/better/stronger”.

It’s simply not true, but it’s hard to change their minds, just like it’s hard for them to change my mind. This article comes at the argument from a totally different perspective and it’s effective.

By: cranial-bore

cranial-bore — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:35:03 +0000

The dig at the visually impaired was tongue in cheek…my response to the mental image I have of web designers everywhere crippled with analysis paralysis over how to accomplish what in the past would have been a simple task.

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:21:23 +0000

@cranial-bore: I would agree that the state of screen reader technology is far from ideal, but I’m not sure what blaming visually impaired users for this will accomplish.

By: cranial-bore

cranial-bore — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:33:07 +0000

RE: Showing Good Form — what are the visually impaired doing to help web designers? It seems JAWS (the example used in the article) could come part of the way to making the web more accessible. Seems web designers have to do all the jumping through hoops.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:36:02 +0000

Boring… *yawn*