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ISSN 1496-3221

November 7, 2002

Getting to the cruft of the matter.

Matthew Thomas takes a fairly balanced whack at all the legacy gunk that accumulates on human-computer interfaces in his essay When good interfaces go crufty. One of my favourite bits comes near the end of the piece: “In human-computer interfaces, as in real life, horrible things often have minor benefits to some people.” Ain’t it the truth. This statement pretty much sums up my experience with Netscape and style sheets over the past two days. Horrible things indeed. Via Studio Log

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