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  • Content Management : A Case Study (Of Sorts) — Dorian Taylor
    http://doriantaylor.com/content-management-a-case-study-of-sorts

    if you’re gonna make a Web in­ter­face for ma­nip­u­lat­ing data of some kind, why not make it op­er­ate over some struc­ture for which there isn’t al­ready an ex­traor­di­nar­i­ly ma­ture desk­top tool that does ex­act­ly the same job?

    If you’re going to make a Web-based in­ter­face for a task like en­ter­ing text, con­sid­er it re­me­di­al. I don’t care how snazzy HTML5 is. Who­ev­er uses that func­tion­al­i­ty is al­most cer­tain­ly try­ing to do their job on their phone from down at the bar or some­thing. And, if you in­sist on mak­ing one, for good­ness sake fix the back but­ton. I once saw a guy put his fist through a wall after clip­ping that and los­ing the mag­num opus he had spent the pre­vi­ous hour naïvely hunt­ing-and-peck­ing into his brows­er.

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