Discuss: Ruining the User Experience

by Aaron Gustafson

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By designing for people that refuse to move forward with everyone else we’re holding everybody else back! Adapt or die :/

posted at 06:27 pm on April 16, 2007 by Suraj Bharath

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So, by your estimation, Suraj, we should forget about accessibility, interoperability, search engine optimization, mobile devices, and printing the web? You see, it’s not all about backward compatibility, but simply compatibility, period.

You view seems pretty short-sighted for someone who has “adapted.”

posted at 06:57 pm on April 20, 2007 by Aaron Gustafson

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Gooooooogle serves a capable non-AJAX GMail solution to user agents that do not support JavaScript. A better example (staying in the same family of apps) is Google Docs.

Thanks

posted at 04:32 pm on July 5, 2007 by Murat Isik

54 Conditional Comments are not hacks!

Sorry, I just couldn’t let that one go.

A hack is when you exploit rendering flaws in a browser to display alternative code. This is a problem, because you never know how future browsers will interpret it (as everyone found out in IE7).

Conditional Comments, first and foremost… are just comments. Any browser that’s not expecting them will never render them any other way. This makes them a powerful tool in building sites and it’s foolish to overlook them.

Despite your personal feelings, not everything that’s good for Microsoft is bad for everyone else.

posted at 12:49 am on October 13, 2007 by Rob Lammers

55 Javascript everywhere

I always try to design pages and even JavaScript is used, it’s used rather as extra functionality for existing page. But many people don’t understand it and when you disable JavaScript in your browser you cannot use site at all – you cannot order or buy something in shop because it was designed, that javascript is needed for such actions as adding product to cart.

Unfortunately more and more sites use javascript as something that is needed – in google you won’t login to your account if you disable JavaScript…

posted at 10:54 am on December 7, 2007 by Marcin Nabiałek