HTML "transition" (was Re: [ih] spam...)

[Mike Padlipsky]

At 10:32 PM 1/26/03, Joe Touch wrote:
 >Lloyd Wood wrote:
[...]
>>I suspect the longevity of a document's readability is inversely
>>proportional to the number of features involved in creating it, not
>>the time between writing and reading it.  Complexity is the killer.
>
>On that we both agree.

why, then, y're both wrong.

to the optimist, 'the' killer is the naive belief, painfully widespread in 
both the techolaity and the technoclergy, that change equals progress.  to 
the pessimist [or, if you prefer, realist], 'the' killer is planned 
obsolescence.

both might well be correct, for reasonable values of 'the', but in any case 
complexity is merely a consequence of the former and a handmaiden [or, if 
you prefer, gun moll] of the latter.

[ok, ok: in my humble, but dogmatic, opinion [or, if you prefer, yr 
credulity may vary] ... but it makes a great maphorism -- imhbdo  -- and a 
goodly amount of sense, to me.]


cheers, map

[whose shoulder problems caused him to break down some time ago and create
a 'signature' file to apologize for the lack of his formerly customary
e-volubility -- and who's been employing shiftless typing for a long time
now to spare his wristsnfingers, in case you didn't know ... and who's
further broken down and done http://www.lafn.org/~ba213/mapstuff.html ,
rather grudgingly]