Acidus wrote:

This can be fixed, and it doesn't require you hacking around IE6 lacks of PNG transparency or Safari's crazy JavaScript. It's making smart decisions about how you define the layout of a page.

and what would that consist of?
the article seems to take a radical position
that there is a clear dichotomy between style and content
but style modifies the meaning of content
in the same way that punctuation modifies meaning in text
clearly i frequently write in note form without punctuation
years ago I read Molly's soliloquy in James Joyce's Ulysses and saw that certain elements aren't essential for meaning
but
they make it more readable, accessable and friendly
I write how I think and often will polish afterwards.
I wonder whether chasing the Blue Bird of design that fits every platform is realistic but the efforts to produce flexible UI are very important

when my mom bumbs the font size of http://www.cnn.com up 2 levels and suddenly the menu bar is going off the screen and text doesn't fit in boxes anymore, that's is a problem.

When a user enters in a bunch of text into a comment block and it appears as one long line going right over the pretty floating table of content, thats a problem.

When I have a 1400x900 screen and a blog renders as a thin vertical strip maybe 700 pixels across thats just silly.

yes
the goal is communication
flexibility is a challenge
u want a UI to be like a marine. Whom I understand from TV and Hollywood are trained to obey orders and to adapt (AIAO Adapt Improvise and Overcome).
There are too many UIs like Denholm Elliott's character in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Indiana Jones: ...he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again. With any luck, he's got the grail already.
[Cut to middle of fair in the Middle East, Marcus Brody wearing bright suit and white hat, sticking out like sore thumb]
Marcus Brody: Uhhh, does anyone here speak English?

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