What is it with people named Siegel?

[scharles]

I have not read the book, but I have seen the website.  Siegel makes it
quite clear that his pages work best on what he considers to be the most
advanced browsers (Netscape was his choice last time I visted his site). I
don't think his aim is "awesome" or "cool", I think he takes the same
approach an architect would when disigning a building: he wants it
functionally and aesthetically as perfect as it can be.  I think he is
striving for beauty (albeit by his own standards).  I also think he regrets
the fact that some browsers are not as good as they could be.

He is also lambasted for being arrogant, and I seriously doubt he pays
attention to criticisms from authoring groups; I know I wouldn't. I was on
the HTML Writers Guild List, and found it full of trivial, and vindictive,
postings and cross postings; totally unprofessional.  

All things considered, I think his site is worth visiting, and I plan to buy
his book.  The URL is http://www.dsiegel.com/home.html.

ScottC.

At 05:54 AM 12/17/96 -0800, it was posted:
>As a book recommendation, a rash of people said something like:
>
>> I also wanted to recommend Siegel's book...
>
>I don't want to criticize anyone's recommendations, especially for a book I
>haven't read, but you  may want to be aware that Siegel is regularly
>lambasted on some of the www authoring newsgroups; his suggestions for
>making your site awesome or cool often fail to "degrade gracefully" on
>older browsers, or browsers with--for example--images turned off, and they
>may not fare well at the hands of some crawlers/indexers.