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[Followup-to lugnet.off-topic.geek]
Alan Bedford <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@execulink.com> wrote:
> I was expecting some contrary comments on my post, but wasn't really
> expecting a debate on semantics. :)
*grin*
> As far the expression being 'useless' I would have to disagree on that
> point. A quick string search on Altavista showed more than 10,000 web
> pages that use that expression. A similar search under the phrase
> "greatest common denominator" revealed less than 200.
Oh, certainly an amazing number of people use it wrongly. But a lot of
people also say that they "could care less", when they mean that they
couldn't.
People don't think about what they're saying; they just want to get the word
"low" in there somewhere. They could say "design for the (unfortunately low)
greatest common denominator", if the want.
For the example of TV: "greatest common denominator" would mean "the highest
quality of content that everybody can understand" (which is obviously pretty
low *sigh*). The "lowest common denominator" would be "is the TV on".
Ok, so in the case of TV, the "lowest" phrase may make sense. *grin*
But with HTML, you want to design for the greatest you can that will look
good and work well for everyone. You _could_ design for the least, but that
would probably be "straight ASCII text".
> This is absolutely true. And no matter what expression is used to describe
> the principle, it would seem that LEGO has dropped the ball when it comes
> to their website.
Obviously I agree. Probably the same thing could be said of their Town Jr
sets....
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