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RE: Slightly OT: CSS Naked Day

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From: L
Date: Apr 5, 2006 9:20AM

Kynn Bartlett wrote:

"This naked day just seems pointless and rather backslappingly self-congratulatory instead of truly educational or useful."

That's as may be, but at least it's trying to make a valid point and to promote a good practice in a way that's tangible for people to understand.

We spend much of our working lives instructing and guiding people on how to improve their sites, how to increase the user experience. Why should we not be the ones to make that point a little more forcibly by demonstrating the principles we teach.

I can't think of a better way of making a point than demonstrating by example, it makes it much easier to understand the separation of presentation from content when you see it in action.

It may be viewed as self congratulatory, but it's considerably more educational and useful than decrying a well intentioned effort to clearly demonstrate one of the more technical aspects of site design.

Regards,
L