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Don't you just love watching the pixels of someone's commercial artwork masterpiece resolve on a page while it's loading on your browser? So that the moment the image-map text is legible you can link to where you actually want to go?
Trust me, not everyone has a direct or ISDN line, and you will have noted how slow the various servers out there on the 'Net become at prime-time (which can take up most of the night.)
Lifestyle consultants are beginning to recommend tatting and petit-point for browser-cruisers, just to keep them from drumming their fingers.
My feeling is that we should stick with the program. The most visited sites on the net load in a flash; they often sport one-colour logos, and the information is displayed in an open and accessible manner.
The theme is data, that is what the net is for, isn't it? In at least one sense, W3 graphics are like the illuminated letters of ancient manuscripts, prepared by ascetic monks as an aspect of their devotion.
Here at the operations centre for the marginally disassociated we try to stay abreast of developments in the flow (and ebb?) of idiom.
There are times when this can become confusing; even distressing. Symbols mean so very much to us, after all.
As a matter of fact, one could argue that this affixing of symbols is the basic function of consciousness.
I/we/you perceive something; then store the information in the magically memorial manner, assigning symbolic value for ease and convenience in the process of ratiocination.
Then you apply these most organic of ethereal things to a machine system.
How does it feel?
It feels funny.
Computers are far from intuitive; the concept leaves something to be desired as far as inter-connectivity of humans with cybernetic systems is concerned.
After having mastered what may have seemed like an exceedingly arcane series of codes and commands, all seems straightforward, at least retrospectively. Only try to impart your new knowledge to one of the 'uninitiated,' though, and you may find yourself stymied.
We may have finally uncovered the source of the common problem with software manuals for applications: They are actually in another language which is very, very similar to the normal usage; it is only that everything means something else. The ultimate cypher.
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