[Sigia-l] Rant about bad IA practice.

[Stewart Dean]

Donna, 

There's nothing wrong with desivning for a minority providing it doesnt affect the majority.  My point is if RSS as a major tool is not applicable to the majority. RSS feeds are currently a fairly geeky thing that some web heads are into. They are useful if you want others to nest your content on other sites and devieces  or if your site is quite geeky and web head orientated. It's become more important to some than it really is. Like I said, it's about perspective.

Stew Dean




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> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:08:15 +1000
> From: donnam at maadmob.net
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> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Rant about bad IA practice.
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> Stewart Dean wrote:
> > I'm sure there are some who browse sites as RSS feeds,  but they point are they are a minority.  The concept of feeds is just not really that clear to the average internet user or even enticing.
> >   
> But why is it so bad to create/design something that suits a specific 
> audience, even if that audience is a minority. A small proportion of a 
> huge number is still a big number...
> 
> People with visual impariments are a minority, so shall we stop 
> designing for them?
> 
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> Donna Maurer
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