Comments on: Show Us Yer White Bits! http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/ Working together for standards Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John A. Bilicki III http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-321 John A. Bilicki III Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:56:11 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-321 This won't work too well for sites with a complete seperation of content and structure (IE all div layouts like my site). Good idea in general, tricky execution. This won’t work too well for sites with a complete seperation of content and structure (IE all div layouts like my site).

Good idea in general, tricky execution.

]]> By: Rob http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Rob Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:18:49 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-303 I would just like to say that I really loved the idea when I read about it. My site started as a school club for our college group of friends and has moved into a community. We all graduated with a major in web design and still trying to decide what to do with our site at the moment, but I took off the css for April 5th! Not all of my vistors and members understood, but it got noticed. Thx for the idea to try to push web standards! I would just like to say that I really loved the idea when I read about it. My site started as a school club for our college group of friends and has moved into a community. We all graduated with a major in web design and still trying to decide what to do with our site at the moment, but I took off the css for April 5th! Not all of my vistors and members understood, but it got noticed. Thx for the idea to try to push web standards!

]]> By: Alright, now somebody hand me a towel http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Alright, now somebody hand me a towel Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:35:42 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-293 [...] Surely you’ve got to know at least one of those. It was even digg’d to the hompage (nevermind the fact that the comments are generally useless over there). More importantly, it had the support from WebStandards.org which ultimately is what it’s all about. [...] [...] Surely you’ve got to know at least one of those. It was even digg’d to the hompage (nevermind the fact that the comments are generally useless over there). More importantly, it had the support from WebStandards.org which ultimately is what it’s all about. [...]

]]> By: glandium http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-292 glandium Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:26:45 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-292 Create a site with old fashion code (i.e. table layout, inline style). Remove the CSS. Oh there was already none. Oh okay, one to change the font, just to say there's one. Here, now look my site on the CSS Naked day. It looks like... the original one with a different font. Take a semantically designed html with a fine tuned css design. Look at the site on the CSS Nake day. It looks like... plain text with some titles bigger than the rest. I don't really see the point of the CSS Naked day except for adding one more argument for those who don't support CSS. You won't make the point for the others, since they are already convinced. Create a site with old fashion code (i.e. table layout, inline style). Remove the CSS. Oh there was already none. Oh okay, one to change the font, just to say there’s one. Here, now look my site on the CSS Naked day. It looks like… the original one with a different font.

Take a semantically designed html with a fine tuned css design. Look at the site on the CSS Nake day. It looks like… plain text with some titles bigger than the rest.

I don’t really see the point of the CSS Naked day except for adding one more argument for those who don’t support CSS. You won’t make the point for the others, since they are already convinced.

]]> By: Kynn Bartlett http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Kynn Bartlett Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:38:38 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-289 <blockquote> As a result it seems like more of an exercise in reinforcing the need for visual design rather then reinforcing the need for a strong foundation behind that design. </blockquote> Yup. Visual design is useful and valuable.

As a result it seems like more of an exercise in reinforcing the need for visual design rather then reinforcing the need for a strong foundation behind that design.

Yup. Visual design is useful and valuable.

]]> By: Joey Day : Avocation » CSS Naked Day! http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Joey Day : Avocation » CSS Naked Day! Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:04:30 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-279 [...] I’ve stripped off all my CSS for the day (and maybe a few more days). Why? It’s the first annual CSS Naked Day. Several of my favorite blogs have gone naked as well, including Adactio and Clagnut. There’s also a mention on The Web Standards Project. [...] [...] I’ve stripped off all my CSS for the day (and maybe a few more days). Why? It’s the first annual CSS Naked Day. Several of my favorite blogs have gone naked as well, including Adactio and Clagnut. There’s also a mention on The Web Standards Project. [...]

]]> By: Chris Casciano http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Chris Casciano Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:53:58 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-276 I don't think that the idea is a bad one. Or at least it wouldn't be if the default browser style sheets didn't stink so much. More then anything what was lost when I've hit 3 or 4 "naked" sites today among my course of browsing was context and other visual clues and I just find I'm spending too much looking for what I want on a page / where I want to start reading rather then doing what I came to do then leaving. As a result it seems like more of an exercise in reinforcing the need for visual design rather then reinforcing the need for a strong foundation behind that design. I don’t think that the idea is a bad one. Or at least it wouldn’t be if the default browser style sheets didn’t stink so much.

More then anything what was lost when I’ve hit 3 or 4 “naked” sites today among my course of browsing was context and other visual clues and I just find I’m spending too much looking for what I want on a page / where I want to start reading rather then doing what I came to do then leaving. As a result it seems like more of an exercise in reinforcing the need for visual design rather then reinforcing the need for a strong foundation behind that design.

]]> By: Rik Hemsley http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Rik Hemsley Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:38:12 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-275 Come on then, get your kit off! Come on then, get your kit off!

]]> By: Kerri http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Kerri Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:46:43 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-272 Hmm, shame I just found this now, or I'd have actually done it. I think I'd have needed a bit more lead time. That said, erm, how come The Web Standards Project dot org hasn't done it? Hmm, shame I just found this now, or I’d have actually done it. I think I’d have needed a bit more lead time.

That said, erm, how come The Web Standards Project dot org hasn’t done it?

]]> By: Kynn Bartlett http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/get-naked/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Kynn Bartlett Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:31:23 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/03/show-us-yer-white-bits/#comment-271 I think this is a foolish, designer-centric idea that will only hurt usability and accessibility for end users for 24 to 48 hours, while producing minimal benefits (beyond mutual back-patting) for the developers. It sends the signal that website design and functionality exists only for the benefit of the designers and not the end users; end user functionality IS affected by style sheets, and this statement says that users don't matter as long as developers "learn" that CSS is...something. Count me in the naysayers. --Kynn I think this is a foolish, designer-centric idea that will only hurt usability and accessibility for end users for 24 to 48 hours, while producing minimal benefits (beyond mutual back-patting) for the developers.

It sends the signal that website design and functionality exists only for the benefit of the designers and not the end users; end user functionality IS affected by style sheets, and this statement says that users don’t matter as long as developers “learn” that CSS is…something.

Count me in the naysayers.

–Kynn

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