[Web4lib] Web technologies and public access

[Leo Robert Klein]

Richard Wiggins wrote:
> Karen,
> 
> With all due respect (and much is due) --
> 
> You said you found less credence in a Web site because it was so 1995.
> 
> I know exactly what you mean.  I get it.  Some sites just so exude, well,
> 1995.  But that is the presentation.  It is not the words.  It is not the
> meaning.  The words are what they say.  Hemingway does not differ in
> paperback.
> 
> Your thesis worries me.  Wisdom does not exist per se in Web design.  Clever
> design may exhibit wisdom, but words are words.  Design and text may marry
> -- but the text matters.

Haven't we already had this discussion?  Like say, in 1910 -- or maybe
it was the Fifties?  Form over function, ornament and crime -- you never 
win.

LEO

P.S. I tend to side with the "ornament" people but that's because I'm a 
tender sensitive human being.

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