{"id":498,"date":"2002-08-06T23:45:01","date_gmt":"2002-08-07T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=498"},"modified":"2004-10-20T07:28:41","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T15:28:41","slug":"consumer-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"consumer sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=http:\/\/bias.blogspot.com\/2002_06_01_bias_archive.html#85156022>Susanna Cornett<\/a> hadn&#8217;t changed hosts, I might never have read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourish.com\/archives\/2002\/june2-8_2002.html#2002060802\">Meryl Yourish&#8217;s rant on web design<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe first standard of web publishing I learned was: The reader is in control, not you.  You shouldn&#8217;t care if your readers want to completely override your backgrounds and fonts.  Web publishing is all about malleability; if you can&#8217;t grasp that, you should be publishing on paper and ink.  Those of you who insist on using templates that don&#8217;t allow the user to increase the font size need to find another template.  You&#8217;re cheating your reader out of the control the web is supposed to bring her.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which, friends, is why my pages have as little design as I can give them.  If you&#8217;re at all like me, you&#8217;re here for the words, not the colors.  (And if you&#8217;re not at all like me, why the heck are you reading this?)<\/p>\n<p>Let us join hands and pray that Samizdata sees the light.<\/p>\n<p><b>Later<\/b>: Bruce Baugh is perhaps more to the point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFolks, you really don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s reading.  Some people are color-blind, and depend on contrasts in shades of gray.  Some people have optic nerve damage, from multiple sclerosis or other conditions.  Some are nearsighted or farsighted.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(This is on Bruce&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/fortunewriter.blogspot.com\/>old site<\/a>; his <a href=http:\/\/www.tkau.org\/weblog\/>new site<\/a> did not carry over the old archives.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Susanna Cornett hadn&#8217;t changed hosts, I might never have read Meryl Yourish&#8217;s rant on web design: The first standard of web publishing I learned was: The reader is in control, not you. You shouldn&#8217;t care if your readers want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}