08 Jul 2004 | Bryan Haggerty said...

I think the best point he talks about is the fieldset tag which I honestly had never known about. Such a good way to encapsulate your form elements.

The long scrolling pages I do find a bit annoying, most users hate to do a lot of scrolling. The front page is meant to promote your latest additions and even at that usually just a quick blurb to entice the reader to continue reading (on to another dedicated page that is).

08 Jul 2004 | Paolo said...

Ever heard of self-fullfilling prophecies?

This may be one of them.

There is no real magic at play here, just smoke and mirrors and the clever use of suggestion to make a future vision become today's reality.

08 Jul 2004 | Don Schenck said...

I wish I could weigh in ... but being design-challenged, I cannot.

*sigh*

I did visit many -- no, all -- of the sites she listed a Forward Thinkers. Gorgeous sites. I hate all of you designers. Hate you, I say!

08 Jul 2004 | Jamie said...

What does this guy know. Who cares what he thinks. Sorry to be so negative.

08 Jul 2004 | Adam H. said...

Don: Cameron's a guy :)

Jamie: Hate to burst your bubble, but Cameron is pretty well known in the "Web Design/Weblogger community thingamajig-o-sphere." Not that his word is gold or anything, but he's not some unknown loaf - just look at his site for proof of that.

Poala: In the future, people will give me money whenever I tell them to and I will be the coolest person ever in the history of persons. Ever.

08 Jul 2004 | Don Schenck said...

Jamie -- uh ... yeah ... I KNEW THAT ... sheesh.

:-)

08 Jul 2004 | but that's just me said...

Just a simple slip of the finger, Don. S's have a way of creeping in where they don't belong. ;-)

08 Jul 2004 | Don Schenck said...

My real name is Don Chenck. *laugh*

09 Jul 2004 | jupiter said...

Are there any compatibility issues with the fieldset-tag?

09 Jul 2004 | Don Schenck said...

Jupiter -- yes.

09 Jul 2004 | Arne Gleason said...

Fieldset and Legend tags render a bit differently between browsers in their default state, but behave pretty well the same with CSS applied. The best thing about them is that they are standard and have an intended purpose (to bound a set of fields and label the set). I think its good to have specific tags for common layout constructions, rather than to use Divs and Spans for everything (though Ive had a heated argument with someone who thought otherwise).

09 Jul 2004 | sloan said...

Fieldsets are great from a coding standpoint, but the designer should be handling the grouping of fields. A box outline? That's distracting and ridiculous. It takes up more pixels than simply using proper white spacing. Use natural human eye grouping/selecting properties and you will have much more space to work with AND have better usability. I mean, do you think input field tags are usable? Default buttons?

09 Jul 2004 | Arne Gleason said...

Fieldset tags are not JUST great from a coding standpoint. The designer if free to give them any properties desired (box outline not required), and if the user decides to turn-off the stylesheet, the intention remains (which you would loose using Divs as all the lovely padding and margins of the design vanish). If fieldsets were used more often, some screen readers might even end up taking advantage of them to provide better audio context (I dont think any do now).

Im not sure why Im beating the fieldset drum, as I rarely use them (maybe Im trying to convince myself to do so though only when I have a set of fields that need a container).

13 Jul 2004 | the great novak said...

My Prediction:
3D Page Curls
more use of the JPEG
Animatronics
Virtual Reality
Bigger Paradigm Shifts