I’ve just been reading a tutorial at vitamin. It’s a good tutorial, offering up ways to minimise the scariness of forms by grouping fields and hiding/showing them with Javascript, accordion style.
While there are many things that we could discuss about the article itself such as lack of accessibility and the preferred use of unobtrusive Javascript, etc. The point of the article itself is cool:
- think laterally
- think of your users
- try new stuff
What I’m getting to is the comments… How many righteous CSS XHTML Semantic moaning tossers does it take to pick to pieces an article that is trying to help you or at least be informative. If you don’t like an article do one of two things – go away and don’t waste time leaving a response OR be constructive with your criticism (I’m the hiphoppapotimos).
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I blame that particular tehcnology…
Design is totally subjective. Code is ‘almost’ entirely objective so surely something as ridiculous as XHTML/CSS is going to land you in a group of people that are subjective objectors’?
Having hung out on a few too many coding forums, conversations are generally fairly brief and to the point, and once an issue is resolved everyone shuts up and gets back to combing their beards.
I can only imagine hanging out on a design forum would be a truly miserable experience. Thankfully, not many designers know about the Internet yet so we’re safe for a year or two!
Rymenosorous.. out.