There’s a recent trend that’s started really bugging me. Infographics. Not all infographics: I love websites like Infosthetics.com that show case some inspiring and beautiful ways of visually presenting data. What I’m hating is cheap blog infographics like this example on Mashable. It’s a time line; is the best way to present a list of events on the web a 700kb image? Really? There have been web development wars over using tables for layout vs nice clean semantic HTML and we’re now using fucking images to store information? Stop it. Now. It’s not big, it’s not clever, accessible, indexable or anything but shit. Calling it an infographic does not make it OK to through all web standards out the window. The web design and development community needs to make it clear that this is not acceptable.
Archive for July, 2010
Infographics – please stop!
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010TinyMCE Show Structure plugin
Thursday, July 15th, 2010This is an update on my project to style WYSIWYG interfaces to help the users get an understanding of the HTML they are creating. Read the original post here.
First of all, here’s the new demo page.
Changes since the original experimental version:
- It’s been packaged up as a TinyMCE plugin – it was just a stylesheet before.
- There’s a button to toggle the stylesheet on and off (with it’s own little icon).
- All error reporting removed – his will be tackled in the next phase.