Re: Why usability is a path to failure.
The point is you get no advantage for selling horses whose only selling point is they aren't dead.
Only on the web would baseline primitive accessibility be confused with usability. Making your site code parsable by 'bots is not usability, it's bare minimum coding competence -- if that.
And until SE 'bots start buying things, putting in some thought about humans is a critical requirement. No store is going to advertise they didn't make doors fifteen feet off the ground, but somehow making a site show up in a browser is a feat of genius. Most of what passes for usability -- getting your site up to the minimal standard for a 'bot to parse it -- is so basic as to not be worth mentioning. It's not even human accessibility -- it's computer parse - ability.
But it has one thing which is apparently attractive to the code-obsessed ...there is not a hint of human nature to be found. Make no mistake, code parsability is not human usability. That's not even on the level we're talking about with this article.
Last edited by Dcrux; 08-03-2007 at 08:34 AM.
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