Gimlé

My mother always told me that my sarcasm and caustic sense of humour would get me into trouble.

Regarding the preceding post: I’m not really railing against specific people here. It’s more of a rant against the general tendency with a lot of people in the blogoverse (to use a horrid word). People who think that there is no such thing as a casually browsing web user and that everybody’s looking for something specific.

It’s this kind of thinking that drives the World Wide Web Consortium into uselessness, for example.

The majority of people browse the web because they don’t feel like working and are killing time. Ignoring those users is fine, as long as you acknowledge their existence in the first place.

Pretending that the majority of web users are browsing with any sort of point or purpose is just a tad delusional.

Saying that the researchers, the users with a purpose, are the only ones you care about is fine. Your website, your call.

But randomly browsing the web is the 21st century worker’s version of going out to smoke a fag.

Now, if you want to flame me for bad grammar or for violating the English language you’d be perfectly justified in doing so.

Baldur.