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Re: Slightly OT: CSS Naked Day

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Apr 5, 2006 11:40AM

> As the end user, i.e. the target audience, of the majority of the sites
> that jumped on the bandwagon is other DESIGNERS (I love how, in your
> posts, it clearly shines through that you'd pronounce it like it was a
> dirty word), it's educational within the peer group. It's an in-joke.
> Now, if this stunt was pulled on sites aimed at the general public, I'd
> definitely be worried, yes. :)

It makes it very inbred though, as I also pointed out on my disclaimer at:
http://wait-till-i.com/index.php
"So today is the first annual CSS Naked Day and as a great webdesigner
you to turn off the CSS on your blogs to show, well, what? That blogs
that thrive on content and syndication of content via RSS can work
without style sheets? We know that. Can I get some support to make
business aware of the benefits of CSS, too?"

I think zengarden has proved to the design community that CSS is
powerful and its job is to style structure, but then again looking at
the image replacement orgies there maybe not.

IMHO a web designer who still has not grasped the idea of separation
of content structure presentation and behaviour is not worth his money
or my time. We wasted enough time and money trying to force non-medium
designs onto the web. I cannot cram 4 pages of text into a 30 second
sound jingle either (although they try with the terms and conditions
in radio ads).

My disclaimer tomorrow will be Oh My God, it is full of styles!
http://wait-till-i.com/pics/fullofstyles.jpg