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A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers

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Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers

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I could see this being very useful. My one criticism is that I find the all-caps League Gothic much too difficult to read here. A non-condensed sans-serif would be a lot easier on the eyes.

Agreed. This looks like one of those instances where the designer went for form and completely forgot about function. It looks nice, at a glance, but actually reading it is difficult.

Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers

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Annoying that lack of IE6 compatibility makes "launch not advisable". It's hard enough to convince clients that IE6 must die. http://www.ie6nomore.com/

Investigate "aggressive degradation". It revolves around the principle of not stressing over delivering the same exact functionality - but delivering something that DOES work in its simplest forms. A GIF when a PNG would look nicer. Squared off corners when border-radius would look nicer and you can't be bothered with background images and floats (yes I am aware this is an IE-wide problem).

Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers

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My eyes hurt (literally) after a few seconds of trying to read the text.

Mine too. My first thought is that these guys need to take a style lesson from Matt Drudge.

I like checklists, but I really prefer plain text that I print out and check off manually. It's just easier.

Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers

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post #12

Annoying that lack of IE6 compatibility makes "launch not advisable". It's hard enough to convince clients that IE6 must die. http://www.ie6nomore.com/

Investigate "aggressive degradation". It revolves around the principle of not stressing over delivering the same exact functionality - but delivering something that DOES work in its simplest forms. A GIF when a PNG would look nicer. Squared off corners when border-radius would look nicer and you can't be bothered with background images and floats (yes I am aware this is an IE-wide problem).

Yes, we used aggressive degradation in 2009.

In 2010, after Microsoft sent flowers to IE6's funeral[1] we have been able to use that anecdote to persuade clients to go a step further and actively sign off that IE6 is not supported.

At the least, "Displays and functions correctly in IE6" should be defaulted to "N/A", which would also help make the "N/A" option more discoverable.

[1] http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/03/microsoft_sends_flo...

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