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It seems like we're at a crossroads in web design -- one where we could all consider changing our ways and support the W3C or we could keep plowing ahead with tables, spacers, and other tricks.

Web site design began with a burst of wild innovation. Now experimentation is ceding ground to convention - agreement among users about where they expect page functions to appear. And where the users go, the designers will have to follow.

Any post related to politics is usually filled by people who have boundless contempt for things they have not bothered to understand, and half of the remaining posts devolve into pissing contests over etiquette (ooh! A double post! Call 911! Ooh! A Front Page Post unworthy of the concept - thwow him to the gwound, wufly!) If you combined Noam Chomsky and Emily Post at age 22 and set them in front of a computer after their 89th consecutive dateless Saturday, you'd have a perfect example of the recent MeFi member. (Says an old-timer. Kids today!) They're the people who sniff and roll their eyes when someone mentions "evil" in the form of paranoid dictatorial states, and then explode with horrified invective when the recording industry tries to take away their Napster. I would have said this with sadness a year ago - and to be fair, people have been lamenting MeFi's decline since day one - but lately it seems the idea of a Community Blog has turned into a hallway full of headcrabs.

As a curmudgeon, I am delighted to point out that the popular term, Information Design, is a misnomer. Information cannot be designed; what can be designed are the modes of transfer and the representations of information. This is inherent in the nature of information, and it is important for designers to keep the concepts of information and meaning distinct.

A few people have asked what's up with the CSS-only design on this site and how it works in Netscape 4. My notes on the transition from tables to CSS layout are becoming a full-fledged article at this point, but here's the short version: after wrangling with it for several days I came to the conclusion that there was no way I was going to achieve the same results in NS4 with a single stylesheet. This left me three options...

I feel the key to international propagation of accessible design techniques lies in restructuring the fundamental learning process of developing a Web site. When I first got involved with Web development back in 1994, HTML was nothing more then an easy-to-use programming language used to design Web sites. Several years later, with the birth of XML, my viewpoint changed and I saw the dichotomy between a markup language used to give context to information (HTML) and a styling language for designing the look and feel of a site (CSS). This new approach to Web development allowed me to design Web sites with Web accessibility as part of the process - not an afterthought or something I needed to go back and do after my site is created.

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DWARFINGS
A rash of mysterious dwarfings
in October of 'ninety-four:
Todd was dwarfed by the Washington Monument
Jen and Percy, a door.