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At 14:55 28/03/2001, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > Of course it's a total waste of time to try to explain this here. > > Whatever. Keep on truckin. Dave > >FYI. Both Marcus and I have been doing "work in the trenches" >for a very long time, as have a lot of the people you would >deem "experts". Guess what, I even do a lot of web development... >and I mean a *lot*. > >Our experience may be somewhat different from the typical >"web developer", but it's certainly no less valid... >we tend to end up with systems that are generally >more reliable, more scalable, and more cost effective over >time than those thrown together by a "typical web developer". > >FWIW. I'm not flaming your general notion that you have to >design for and with the users, but saying that "experts" >are incapable of it is a disservice. You, yourself are >often touted as an expert... But this is the point! People like Marcus, who have all the really good real-world experience, aren't involved in W3C standards development. They don't have the time (they have a business to run). (Marcus, apologies for talking about you in the third-person.) J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy Illumination: an out-of-the-box Intranet solution http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@s...
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