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I much prefer those simple pages. Load fast, display fast, no distraction. A little bit like HN.. except for the load fast part :P
Still an order of magnitude faster than Reddit. Maybe I'm just a noob at programming and scaling, but after all the engineers Reddit hires, how are they still so slow and crashing?
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I think his point is that it's a communication system that facilitates communication amongst everyone . And everyone can communicate in words, typed out[0]. And not everyone can produce or effectively communicate using beautiful video, high quality graphics and, I guess, responsive design. [1] It's interesting to wonder what the next-common "wide area" communication mode is -- photos are widely shared, but is there a…
> And everyone can communicate in words, typed out Obviously false, or else answer me in Cherokee, Tamil, Hindi, and Latin. Images can be understood beyond the bounds of a single language.
Images can be understood beyond the bounds of a single language, but only for the very simplest of concepts. Go more complex than a sentence or so, and interpretations begins to muddy the waters in ways that language simply does not.
First time [1] my in-laws saw "the web" they were trying to find information about vacation spots in Brazil but their travel guide was obsolete, I found a web page a student had written up about where the best places to stay and see were in Brazil. I could almost see the dots connect when they realized that someone they didn't know, in Brazil , had written up a piece of information at some point that they were now se…
"At it's heart, web design should be about words." No. The web is not just a place for text / words, that is not its heart and soul, and therefore neither is that the case for web design. It really never has been. I see no great argument in favor of words being the core over any other form of expression. Today's bandwidth more than allows for beautiful video, animation, high quality graphics and photos, etc. Or low k…
>No.
There's some strange dissonance going on in my head reading this on a site with practically no images at all.
Once images went inline, the web's focus moved from content to presentation, much to its detriment (in my humble opinion). We progressively became more at the mercy of the page designer rather than the copy editor.
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I think his point is that it's a communication system that facilitates communication amongst everyone . And everyone can communicate in words, typed out[0]. And not everyone can produce or effectively communicate using beautiful video, high quality graphics and, I guess, responsive design. [1] It's interesting to wonder what the next-common "wide area" communication mode is -- photos are widely shared, but is there a…
> And everyone can communicate in words, typed out Obviously false, or else answer me in Cherokee, Tamil, Hindi, and Latin. Images can be understood beyond the bounds of a single language.
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His blog, e.g. http://justinjackson.ca/the-principle-that-changed-my-life/, seems to follow pretty mainstream design ideas.
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I didn't say text is bleak and characterless. I said that having no design variation is bleak and characterless.
Then style the web as you fit on your own browser, but don't try to impose your design sensibilities on mine. That's why I keep saying 'client side'. I prefer not to download and process most of the graphic cruft that I see, and vastly prefer reading articles in an RSS reader to visitng pages that remind me of being a shopping mall.
Your issue therefore is not with the design but rather with the browser. There is nothing preventing you from using a text-based browser or even writing your own.
I do not know if you are a developer, designer, or something else, but you must realize that minimalism is itself a "design sensibility" as you term it.