Some people where meant to be web designers and some weren't

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Made by Designers for Designers
HowToMambo.com Mambo Template
Dreamweaver Extension and Video Tutorial
kit for the Mambo Open Source CMS.

Made by Designers for Designers
HowToMambo.com Mambo Template
Dreamweaver Extension and Video Tutorial
kit for the Mambo Open Source CMS. 04/10/2005 04:04 AM
HowToMambo.com Mambo Template Dreamweaver Extension and Video Tutorial kit for the Mambo Open Source CMS. Our Product is great for new comers or Mambo template professionals. [PRWEB Apr 10, 2005]

Really, I meant it (06:04 PM)

Really, I meant it (06:04 PM) 02/26/2003 03:39 PM
When I said we're not soliciting suggestions for new names, I really meant it. Right now Camino has passed the preliminary legal check and they

What DiGi's CEO meant

What DiGi's CEO meant 03/23/2005 08:18 PM
The Star Online Mar 24 2005 12:54AM GMT

The Way It's Meant To Be Played

The Way It's Meant To Be Played 09/22/2004 11:47 AM
TechTree Sep 22 2004 3:05PM GMT

I meant to just bitch to Cheney about
it.

I meant to just bitch to Cheney about
it. 06/24/2004 09:28 PM
"Frankly, part of our problem is a lot of the press are afraid to travel very much, so they sit in Baghdad and they publish rumors," Paul Wolfowitz declared Tuesday - a slur that didn't sit well with a lot of journalists risking their lives in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq. After callouts from Howard Kurtz, Maureen Dowd and Editor & Publisher's new rabble-rousing chief, Greg Mitchell, Wolfowitz has submitted an apology. (PDF version.) Ever helpful, Wonkette supplies a translation. (mostly via Romenesko)

Meant for Space, but Useful on Earth

Meant for Space, but Useful on Earth 03/22/2005 04:56 PM
NASA is testing a device that would recycle astronauts' sweat, urine and even the moisture from their breath into drinking water.

FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each
Other?

FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each
Other? 05/08/2004 10:31 AM

nToilet - Meant to be played ;)

nToilet - Meant to be played ;) 09/23/2004 05:21 AM

Godwin's Law: Not Meant To Be Invoked

Godwin's Law: Not Meant To Be Invoked 07/01/2004 08:16 PM
A long time ago, a gentleman by the name of Godwin noticed something about Usenet: Given a long enough timeframe, in any heated discussion, someone will eventually make a comparison between his opponent and Germany's National Socialist Party of seventy years ago or its leader. He also noticed something very important about the first person to make such a comparison.

FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each
Other?

FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each
Other? 05/08/2004 12:01 PM
Slashdot May 8 2004 3:21PM GMT

Smaller PlayStation 2 meant to cut costs

Smaller PlayStation 2 meant to cut costs 09/22/2004 12:08 AM
Azcentral.com - Tue Sep 21, 07:02 pm GMT

sorry, i meant restarted in safe mode

sorry, i meant restarted in safe mode 08/27/2004 09:27 PM
TechTree Aug 28 2004 1:32AM GMT

Big Screen Gaming - The Way Its Really
Meant to be Played

Big Screen Gaming - The Way Its Really
Meant to be Played 05/04/2004 11:05 AM

The appeals court ruling and what
Congress meant

The appeals court ruling and what
Congress meant 03/23/2005 10:19 AM
Applying the law Congress passed rather than the one Tom DeLay wanted, judges on the 11th Circuit reject a request to order the re-insertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.

RIAA Claims Music On Car Radios Meant
Only For Original Owner!!!!

RIAA Claims Music On Car Radios Meant
Only For Original Owner!!!! 06/23/2004 07:07 PM

This is a very funny article and I just could not help myself and had to link to it. [About.com]

A Speech Meant to Rally Public Support
Doesn't Answer Key Questions 5/26

A Speech Meant to Rally Public Support
Doesn't Answer Key Questions 5/26 05/26/2004 04:36 AM
many key questions remain unanswered .. news analysis column .. no new initiatives .. WaComPo

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53141-2004May24.html
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Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands

Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands 02/10/2004 09:18 AM
CNN.com - Passengers: Pilot promotes faith on flight .. Pilot's proselytizing scares passengers .. FLYING THE PLANES!!!!

cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/09/airline.christianity/index.html
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"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"

"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions" 04/06/2005 03:07 AM

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein? 12/22/2003 07:54 AM
Well, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Saddam Hussein was captured by Kurds, not US forces. 12/22 .. (even more) .. more

correspondences.org/archives/000507.html
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Supreme Court won't let law meant to
shield kids from online porn take effect

Supreme Court won't let law meant to
shield kids from online porn take effect 06/29/2004 10:46 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Jun 29 2004 2:26PM GMT

GCHQ tech disasters meant cost over-run
of GBP300million says Commons committee

GCHQ tech disasters meant cost over-run
of GBP300million says Commons committee 06/16/2004 03:42 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 16 2004 7:54AM GMT

Supreme Court blocks law meant to shield
kids from Internet pornography

Supreme Court blocks law meant to shield
kids from Internet pornography 06/29/2004 07:10 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Jun 29 2004 9:45PM GMT

A Speech Meant to Rally Public Support
Doesn't Answer Key Questions
(washingtonpost.com)

A Speech Meant to Rally Public Support
Doesn't Answer Key Questions
(washingtonpost.com) 05/25/2004 02:49 PM
washingtonpost.com - With only five weeks before the transition in Iraq and five months before the U.S. elections, President Bush last night called for more patience, more time, more resources and more support to transform troubled Iraq.

Intel's New Chip Is Meant to Give
Wireless Internet a Longer Reach

Intel's New Chip Is Meant to Give
Wireless Internet a Longer Reach 04/18/2005 12:21 AM
Intel is expected to announce that it has begun selling a computer chip designed to pick up long-range, high-speed wireless Internet signals.

RIAA Claims Music On Car Radios Meant
Only For Original Vehicle Owner!!!!

RIAA Claims Music On Car Radios Meant
Only For Original Vehicle Owner!!!! 06/23/2004 07:17 PM
RIAA Claims Music On Car Radios Meant Only For Original Vehicle Owner .. that the RIAA is suing passengers in cars with radios .. this satirical piece on the RIAA

radio.about.com/library/weekly/aa082603a.htm
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Calling All Designers!

Calling All Designers! 10/29/2003 01:14 AM
Okay, well, perhaps real designers already know, but there’s some fantastic free stock photography available at sxc.hu and I’m completely set aback by it. It’s basically a submission site for amateur/semipros to get noticed, but in the mean time some...

When Web Designers Reproduce

When Web Designers Reproduce 11/11/2003 10:33 AM
When Web Designers Reproduce We've all seen web pages announcing new arrivals, and I have thrown up my own minimalist attempts using bare bones html. But I found this link a fascinating example of what happens when one applies a particular web aesthetic to an important life event. A new genre is born!
Is your infant w3c compliant? (no Flash required)

Should Web Designers Be Regulated?

Should Web Designers Be Regulated? 09/08/2004 06:16 PM
One of the reasons that the web caught on was that HTML was so easy that, with barely any training at all, anyone could create a website. Obviously, that has its downsides as well, as many websites are dreadfully designed. As accessibility issues become more important for websites, it has some wondering if web designers should be regulated, where official web designers would need specific certification, and couldn't use the title "Web Designer" without it. While the HTML purists might like such a thing, it seems like a fairly silly way of going around and improving HTML. A better case could be made for just showing people how bad design harms their business or visitors.

CSS is for geeks not designers

CSS is for geeks not designers 02/01/2005 10:00 PM
Tables may suck, but CSS is no improvement. Yet web designers who have never used page layout tools for offline...

onlinehowtosite.com this Online How To
Site was Designed to Offer a Basic Set
of Instructions and is Meant as a
Learning Aid.

onlinehowtosite.com this Online How To
Site was Designed to Offer a Basic Set
of Instructions and is Meant as a
Learning Aid. 12/25/2004 09:35 PM
Online How To Site has developed a Welding 101 page on the site that offers free how to information about welding from basic to intermediate. Visitors to onlinehowtosite.com will find technical information as well as links to purchase welding equipment. [PRWEB Dec 25, 2004]

Designers and developers sought

Designers and developers sought 01/06/2005 08:01 PM
Dr Frankensite wants you.

9 designers, 9 cities, 9 chairs

9 designers, 9 cities, 9 chairs 06/18/2004 06:33 AM
Un-Fold. (quicktime clip) City Magazine asked 9 designers, from 9 cities across the world to design a chair in 90 days. Oh, and it had to fit in a FedEx box. Pics and more about the designers and the project.

Young Web designers hit a home run

Young Web designers hit a home run 05/30/2004 09:00 AM
Chicago Tribune May 30 2004 12:29PM GMT

postel's law is for implementors, not
designers

postel's law is for implementors, not
designers 01/11/2004 10:13 AM

Another discussion that recently flared up (again) is regarding the applicability of constraints within specifications, more specifically (heh) of constraints that should or should not be placed in the Atom API. The first I heard about this was through this post on Mark's weblog, where among other things he says:

Another entire class of unhelpful suggestions that seems to pop up on a regular basis is unproductive mandates about how producers can produce Atom feeds, or how clients can consume them. Things like “let’s mandate that feeds can’t use CDATA blocks” (runs contrary to the XML specification), or “let’s mandate that feeds can’t contain processing instructions” (technically possible, but to what purpose?), or “let’s mandate that clients can only consume feeds with conforming XML parsers”.

This last one is interesting, in that it tries to wish away Postel’s Law (originally stated in RFC 793 as “be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others”). Various people have tried to mandate this principle out of existence, some going so far as to claim that Postel’s Law should not apply to XML, because (apparently) the three letters “X”, “M”, and “L” are a magical combination that signal a glorious revolution that somehow overturns the fundamental principles of interoperability.

There are no exceptions to Postel’s Law. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is probably a client-side developer who wants the entire world to change so that their life might be 0.00001% easier. The world doesn’t work that way.

Mark then goes on to describe the ability of his ultra-liberal feed parser to handle different types of RSS, RDF and Atom. (Note: I do agree with Mark that CDATA statements should be permitted, as per the XML spec). In fact I do agree with Mark's statement, but I don't agree with the context in which he applies it.

Today, Dave points to a message on the Atom-syntax mailing list where Bob Wyman gives his view on the barriers created by the "ultra-liberal" approach to specifications, using HTML as an example.

I italicized the word "specifications" because I think there's a disconnect in the discussion here, and the context in which Postel's Law is being applied is at the center of it.

As I understand it, Mark is saying that writing down constraints in the Atom spec (or any other for that matter) is something to be avoided when possible, because people will do whatever they want anyway, and it's not a big deal (and he gives his parser as an example). But whether his parser or any other can deal with anything you throw at it is beside the point I think, or rather it proves that Postel's law is properly applied to implementation, but it doesn't prove that it applies to design.

Mark quotes the original expression of Postel's Law in RFC 793, but his quote is incomplete. Here is the full quote:

2.10. Robustness Principle

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

(my emphasis). The comment in the RFC clearly states that implementations will be flexible, not the spec itself. I agree with Mark's statement: there are no exceptions to Postel law. But I disagree in how he applies it, because it doesn't affect design, but rather implementation.

Getting a little bit into the semantic of things, I think it's interesting to note that placing a comment like that on the RFC is actually defining accepted practice (dealing with reality rather than the abstractions of the spec) and so it is a constraint (a constraint that requests you accept anything, rather than reject it, is nevertheless a constraint). So the fact that this "Robustness principle" is within that particular RFC as an example shows that placing constraints is a good idea.

Implementations can and often do differ from specs, unintentionally (ie., because of a bug) or otherwise. But the less constraints there are in a spec, the easier it is to get away with extensions that kill interoperability. So I don't think it's bad to say what's "within spec" and what is not within spec. Saying flat-out that "constraints are bad" is not a good idea IMO.

One example of a reasonable constraint that I think would be useful for Atom would be to say that if an entry's content is not text or HTML/XHTML (e.g., it's a Word document, something that as far as I can see could be done on an Atom feed according to the current spec) then the feed must provide the equivalent text in plain text or HTML. Sure, it might happen that someone starts serving word documents, but they'd be clearly disregaring the spec, and so taking a big chance. Maybe they can pull it off. Just as Netscape introduced new tags that they liked when they had 80 or 90% market share. But when that happened, no one had any doubts that using that tag was "non-standard". And that's a plus I think.

So, my opinion in a nutshell: constraints are good. The more things can be defined with the agreement of those involved, the better, since once something is "out in the wild" accepted practices emerge and the ability to place new constraints (e.g., to fix problems) becomes more limited, as we all know.

What I would say, then, is: Postel's law has no exceptions, but it applies to implementation, not design.

Re: MS web designers -- "What Security
Initiative?"

Re: MS web designers -- "What Security
Initiative?" 06/14/2004 09:13 PM
Greg Kujawa (Jun 14 2004)

MS web designers -- "What Security
Initiative?"

MS web designers -- "What Security
Initiative?" 06/12/2004 12:45 PM
Nick FitzGerald (Jun 12 2004)

xScope a new set of OS X tools for
designers

xScope a new set of OS X tools for
designers 11/14/2003 04:00 PM
Artis Software and the Iconfactory have released xScope 1.0, a US$14.95 set of Mac OS X designer tools for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts.

Dear one-browser Web designers: Don't
say I didn't warn you

Dear one-browser Web designers: Don't
say I didn't warn you 09/27/2004 05:32 AM
In my 2002 book, The Online Rules of Successful Companies, I said it was stupid to design Web sites that would work correctly only with the most popular Web browser. Yes, I told readers, over 90% of all Internet users today may use Microsoft's Internet Explorer (MSIE), but not long ago 90% of all Internet users ran Netscape. Web designers and site owners who made Netscape-only sites had to scramble madly to redo their work when MSIE started getting popular. "Learn from this!" I said.

All-in-one button creation tool for web
designers

All-in-one button creation tool for web
designers 01/29/2003 10:59 AM
IDGNet New Zealand Jan 29 2003 10:01AM ET
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