The latest thing from the dweebs

The cellular phone companies are laughing all the way to the bank. The notion of responsive web design (or, essentially, stuff on the right side of a website page moving down as you squish your browser window to the point of making it look like a smartphone screen in portrait mode) has some giddy. Some, it annoys.

Who says scrolling down is so great? Or to the right? Or, to the left, if that's how your language is oriented?

Rather than the phone companies figuring out how to make a phone that simply adapts a page meant for a computer monitor, "web designers" are second-guessing what kind of device we are all using, and, depending on what it is, a web page will look different.

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This could go on all day, but there are many documents to convert. We must separate our content from our form.

Thanks, dweebs. Thanks for going along with the madness. You know (not that it would mean anything to you), there are more search engine hits for "separate content from presentation," than "separate presentation from content." But that's nothing new, is it? It's the selling the sizzle not the steak thing. Style and substance. Form and function. All Show and no Go. The vapid part always comes first.

And, thanks again, phone companies. By the way, while you were busy building this cellular network, what were you doing to build the 100mbps fiber network?