[Web4lib] RE: Web technologies and public access

[Thomas Dowling]

Stevens, Julieanne H. wrote:
> ...our users generally rate
> content by appearance.  They're simply not going to value the
> information on a "plain" page without any bells and whistles, regardless
> of the content. The page has to "look" like pages they're used to.
> 
> That said, I hate flash because...


Just phrasing it like that continues to conflate "must look 
[cool|modern|hip]" with "uses Flash", and "uses just HTML and CSS" with 
"plain".


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Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu