Re: Updated home page

Mark Baker (distobj@acm.org)
Tue, 02 Nov 1999 00:45:07 -0500


At 01:56 PM 11/1/99 -0500, Sally Khudairi wrote:
>Our revised site -- embedded site within a single page -- will be up probably

Whoa, major step backwards!

I like the responsiveness, but is it really a good thing that some/all of
the individual "pages" don't have URLs and that the whole thing is one big
Turing-complete script?! How is this better than using an applet (modulo
that the script is generated from a tool - it could just as easily have
generated Java bytecodes for an applet)?

What happened to "everything that matters has a URI", declaration before
automation, and all that other good Web stuff? What do search engines
think of content published in this way?

If you did this to teach me a lesson for nit-picking about the single use
of "font" in the XHTML version, ok, lesson learned. Now switch back.
Fast. Please! 8-)

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