From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
Cc: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: First draft of the Emacs website
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:53:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tb4sv6w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9k0svqq.fsf@petton.fr> (Nicolas Petton's message of "Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:42:05 +0100")
Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> The browser is in control of the client's computing resources,
>> compositing managing, window rendition, realtime. If it (or the user
>> settings controlling it) or the page description language does not
>> consider animating changes a good idea, the web page author is not
>> really in a position to know better.
>
>> The user has nothing to gain from every web page inventing its own
>> human-computer interface.
>
> Oh my gosh, the entire www has been wrong all this time!
Not the "entire www", but yes, a good deal of it has been a nuisance.
Partly to the degree where pages are simply unusable because of invalid
assumptions about the human-computer interface. There is a reason ad
blockers are widely used in order to systematically deal with some of
the worst misconceptions of page authors about their users' needs.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-02 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-02 12:47 First draft of the Emacs website H.Tsurumoto
2015-12-02 13:07 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-02 14:55 ` Random832
2015-12-02 15:16 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-02 15:39 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-02 15:42 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-02 15:53 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-12-02 16:07 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-02 15:55 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-02 15:57 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-02 16:05 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-02 16:07 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-02 16:08 ` Random832
2015-12-03 6:22 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-03 9:29 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-03 9:59 ` Alexis
2015-12-03 10:51 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-04 5:22 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-04 9:07 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-04 5:22 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-04 9:36 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-03 6:21 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-02 14:14 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-02 16:39 ` David Engster
2015-12-04 12:32 ` New update of the Emacs website (was Re: First draft of the Emacs website) Nicolas Petton
2015-12-04 13:21 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-04 16:17 ` Rasmus
2015-12-05 0:31 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-12-10 19:55 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-12-10 20:54 ` Karl Fogel
2015-12-10 21:51 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 7:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-11 13:15 ` H.Tsurumoto
2015-12-12 5:01 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-12 5:13 ` Random832
2015-12-13 6:52 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-11-28 23:29 First draft of the Emacs website Nicolas Petton
2015-11-28 23:51 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-11-29 0:03 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-11-29 1:02 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-29 1:26 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-29 2:19 ` Alex Dunn
2015-11-29 3:31 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-11-29 5:42 ` Random832
2015-11-29 8:15 ` David Caldwell
2015-11-29 14:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-30 0:02 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-29 8:06 ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-11-29 10:27 ` Zack Piper
2015-11-29 12:36 ` Rasmus
2015-11-29 12:58 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-29 14:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-29 10:15 ` David Engster
2015-11-29 12:56 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-29 15:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-29 19:38 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-29 22:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-29 22:11 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-29 16:21 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-11-29 19:39 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-29 21:45 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-29 22:11 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-30 0:04 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-30 1:29 ` Alex Dunn
2015-11-30 9:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-30 10:33 ` Dani Moncayo
2015-11-30 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-30 16:06 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-30 16:16 ` Yuri Khan
2015-11-30 16:23 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-01 14:37 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-01 14:56 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-11-30 19:48 ` Milan Zamazal
2015-12-02 16:45 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-02 17:22 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-02 16:36 ` Random832
2015-12-02 17:12 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-02 18:07 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-02 18:26 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-02 18:29 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-02 18:30 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-02 23:47 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-12-04 3:57 ` Random832
2015-12-05 0:19 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-03 13:58 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2015-12-03 22:17 ` John Yates
2015-12-03 22:30 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-03 22:57 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-03 23:26 ` John Yates
2015-12-04 0:58 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-08 13:05 ` Valentijn
2015-12-08 15:09 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-08 15:21 ` Spencer Boucher
2015-12-08 16:08 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-08 20:52 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-08 21:51 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-08 21:58 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-09 21:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-10 5:28 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-10 9:10 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 5:27 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-09 6:06 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-04 6:06 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-04 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 9:42 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-04 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 10:42 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-04 10:44 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-04 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-04 22:26 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-04 22:30 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-04 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-03 23:59 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
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