Comments on: Article: Web Primer – Mistakes, I’ve made a few… http://blog.prominenthosting.com/2008/12/05/article-web-primer-mistakes-ive-made-a-few/ Putting my mouth where my money is Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:40:15 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Trevor Hinson http://blog.prominenthosting.com/2008/12/05/article-web-primer-mistakes-ive-made-a-few/comment-page-1/#comment-1854 Trevor Hinson Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:55:24 +0000 http://blog.prominenthosting.com/?p=147#comment-1854 I agreed. As with almost everything, just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. Explaining these particular issues many, many years ago was the same as explaining today's foreseeable errors to those with the same lemming mindset. As such, it is sometimes better to accept the lemming mindset and then change it once the lemming has realised. There are times when non standard features can be a better approach though. There was a reason for their creation, however fluffy the reason was. Justification however is hard. In general people will just do what others do. Many companies in the dot com days learn't this at the investor's expense. (boo.com ... firesend.com) etc Their particular UI features were far to advanced / daft for the general population and as such were not accepted. Most of the time they didn't work properly either. Best practice for mass population acceptance is obviously to avoid non vanilla features. This is the same for anything. With typical group behavior dynamics people in this web design field now adopt this thinking ... until the herd moves again anyway. :) I agreed. As with almost everything, just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should. Explaining these particular issues many, many years ago was the same as explaining today’s foreseeable errors to those with the same lemming mindset. As such, it is sometimes better to accept the lemming mindset and then change it once the lemming has realised.

There are times when non standard features can be a better approach though. There was a reason for their creation, however fluffy the reason was. Justification however is hard.

In general people will just do what others do. Many companies in the dot com days learn’t this at the investor’s expense. (boo.com … firesend.com) etc Their particular UI features were far to advanced / daft for the general population and as such were not accepted. Most of the time they didn’t work properly either.

Best practice for mass population acceptance is obviously to avoid non vanilla features. This is the same for anything. With typical group behavior dynamics people in this web design field now adopt this thinking … until the herd moves again anyway.

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]]> By: Thomas Wilkinson http://blog.prominenthosting.com/2008/12/05/article-web-primer-mistakes-ive-made-a-few/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Thomas Wilkinson Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:24:21 +0000 http://blog.prominenthosting.com/?p=147#comment-166 Some sound advice. -Tom Some sound advice.

-Tom

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