Jim Barter : Digital Imagination

What is wrong with people? why the hell can’t they make valid code? it’s hardly rocket science…

I firmly believe that most people learn by example, the bigest and most popular examples of webcraft on the internet are also some of the worst, microsoft, apple etc., to this end I have launched www.badcodekills.com (beta) to name and shame the people using the worst code on the web.

Pay a visit and nominate a site, I’ll be including voting for sites in a future update along with a few other idea’s i’ve got kicking round.

‘part from the source for this being a movie site…

GIANT ACID CHAOS CLOUD TO DISOLVE SOLAR SYSTEM!

estimated time of arrival, 9.15am EDT, June 1st 2014.

best not make any long term plans then…

M$ unvail 3 new products, acrylic - a graphics package, sparkle - an ‘application designer’, and quartz - a web development package (did they know that quartz is used by apple?)

had a browse through the demo’s on the M$ website, ‘cos i’m an inquisitive soul…

…don’t bother trying firefox!

…so much for quartzes ’standards based design’.

..useless fcuks.

‘Nuff said…

So, like, ultimately - according to current physical science thinking - the Universe will die.

It will expand to such a size that all energy will be used up, the stars will go out, the Universe as we know it, will stop. Everything will die. This is known as ‘Heat Death‘. Don’t worry though - it won’t happen for a very long time.

Then, slowly at first - so a theory goes - the Universe will start to collapse again. As it does so, it will warm up.

The question is, will life be re-created?

Sorry - must stop doing acid for breakfast.

I deliberately haven’t mentioned the wee bit o’ bother they are having in the US at the minute…

…but.

credit

my best wishes and concerns to all those affected.

Shaun Inman is a well respected web designer who is often named as one of the most influential people in the medium, he recently launched a webstats package called Mint which gives highly detailed refferer information about a sites visitors.

It’s also very pretty, a wonderful peice of CSS/XHTML design.

But get this, mint relies on javascript in order to function. Inmans rational is that it needs .js in order to combat auto-index bots, spiders and other types of refferer ’spam’, he states If you must have detailed usage information on the miniscule percentage of your users browsing with JavaScript disabled then Mint may not be the right solution for you.

Excuse me?

Miniscule?

Recent logs from my clients websites give an average of 11% of users are browsing sans-javascript, this is a substantial amount of people. I can also point to a public source of data giving 10% as the amount.

I’d like to guess that 10% without .js is a greater amount of refferals than the amount of refferer spam most sites get.

So it certainly is NOT the right package for me, and probably - unless modified to allow it to work without .js - never will be. Sorry Shaun.

hat-tip: baz

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