Sean Madden over at frog design has a great blog post up about the controversy in the web standards community over iPhone apps. He brings up a good comparison I hadn’t thought of: OS X Dashboard widgets. Dashboard widgets are also created using HTML and CSS, and yet no one is complaining that they are targeted at one platform.
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A great piece by Sean Madden on the decline of visual design on the web. I admit to having a hard time with this topic. I regularly bemoan the general ugliness of the Internets, but I also am a fan of some of the things that have gotten us there (RSS, an emphasis on accessibility and usability — although I think that’s gone overboard at times — and so on). No doubt, though, the Internet isn’t as visually interesting a place as it was a few years ago, and that’s a real bummer. I really hope we get back to more creative and interesting visual design play online once we get over the culture of accessibility and the web standards movement. Visit site »