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    Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Tom Stangl
   What's New? Not much of anything, a whole lot of fanfare for no real new info (except maybe the 8450 Mission Technic set). Oh, and they went overboard on Shockwave - those idiots in their web design team obviously never have to dial up to connect to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Jeremy Sproat
   (...) Oh, and Javascript seems to be a requirement. There are *NO* <NOSCRIPT> tags anywhere. This just after a glaring security hole was discovered in BOTH Netscape and IE. Grrr.... >:-( Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Kya Morden
     (...) I will take it from these two posts I'm not the only perso who HATES TLG's web designs? I happen to be running on an old 486 with only 16 megs of ram. Getting Netscrape to load faster than a minute is doing pretty good, but when they start (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) Yep. Overproduced... underengineered, and definitely undertested. That's what you get for letting creative do your web site design. Creative needs to be a resource to the techies that actually make things work or you get high sizzle and no (...) (25 years ago, 16-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Frank Filz
      (...) There is a 5th skill which is moderately valueable, but you can get away with, which I would treat as separate: technogeek. I would actually argue that the technogeek is what was allowed to wag the dog here. (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
     
          Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Larry Pieniazek
      Distinguish "technical" from "technogeek" ? I'd argue that technogeek is NOT needed unless geeks are your audience, and even then, they appreciate speed and simplicity too. (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Josh Spaulding
     (...) I do this for a living, too, but I'm on the creative side. I don't disagree with your basic theories of interface design, but the way that you present them makes me suspect that you have little experience working with a good interface (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Larry Pieniazek
     I won't respond point by point but I will say this, a good designer has to have both creative and cognitive skills. Many bad designers have only creative skills, the way I (and CTP) define them. Understanding things like color theory, psychology, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Tobias Möller
   It´s the web-design of today. If you want your site to be cool, the only thing that matters is on how many systems your site *won´t* work. --Tobias (...) design (...) tags (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Todd Lehman
   (...) Dang, that's great sig material. --Todd (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Jeremy Sproat
   (...) It's kinda like the ubiquitous software developer's in-joke: If it compiles, ship it immediately! Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Eric Kingsley
   <snip> (...) You mean I have been under the mistaken assumption that my programs work as long as they compile! OOPs.... All kidding aside your statement is more true that most people would believe or like to admit depending on which side of the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: What´s new at www.lego.com ? —Jeremy Sproat
   (...) Not really related, but I had this dream once... Once upon a time, Microsoft decided to ride the Open Source bandwagon for all it was worth, and released the full source code for Windows NT to the general public. The press went ecstatic. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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