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Much ado?

Matt is quite perturbed over Lockergnome changing back to a table layout from a CSS layout. I don’t see it quite the way he does.

The world is full of things done well and things done poorly. Something done poorly will often still :scare: work :/scare:, but have a variety of drawbacks. This is what I see here.

Will their new site look fine to most people? Yes.

Will it be as clean and as elegant as it could be? No.

It isn’t ideal, but it isn’t the end of the world either.

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Posted March 12th, 2004 @ 12:28 AM

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Michael Heilemann adds this Comment:

I certainly agree that it isn’t the end of the world. Personally I never read Lockergnome and found it to be rather boring. But he does have a good point that if one is to consider them a leading authority on webstandards, they have to live by those standards.

March 12th, 2004 at 2:23 am
Geof adds this Comment:

Is it the end of the world? No. Does it deserve criticism? Yeah, I think that it does.

March 12th, 2004 at 7:56 am
Matt adds this Comment:

If the old “fancy” design didn’t work and the new one didn’t, perhaps I could be more understanding. It’s just such a disappointment.

March 12th, 2004 at 9:50 am
Alex adds this Comment:

From what I’ve read, they seem to be “shooting the messenger”. The reactions to the CSS design probably had very little to do with the CSS and very much to do with the design itself.

March 12th, 2004 at 10:14 am
MaThIbUs adds this Comment:

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March 13th, 2004 at 8:05 am

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