To most web developers, and flash developers in particular, the ability to control precisely what the user sees is the most important thing in the world. MORE important than whether the user actually WANTS to see it or not. So they will cheerfully make decisions left and right that negatively impact usability if they more tightly control presentation.
In the developer's mind, if they spawn a popup of precisely X by Y dimensions, they know that they can size their content to precisely X by Y dimensions and never have to worry about elements wrapping funny, or about suboptimal antialiasing in dynamically resized elements. The fact that a user might cheerfully and knowingly make the decision to resize an element in a way that produces suboptimal antialiasing in order to address some other need or preference is unimportant to the developer.
Making it even simpler yet: web developers will spend any amount of effort necessary to try to reduce a computer into a TV set.
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Date: 2006-09-29 07:00 pm (UTC)To most web developers, and flash developers in particular, the ability to control precisely what the user sees is the most important thing in the world. MORE important than whether the user actually WANTS to see it or not. So they will cheerfully make decisions left and right that negatively impact usability if they more tightly control presentation.
In the developer's mind, if they spawn a popup of precisely X by Y dimensions, they know that they can size their content to precisely X by Y dimensions and never have to worry about elements wrapping funny, or about suboptimal antialiasing in dynamically resized elements. The fact that a user might cheerfully and knowingly make the decision to resize an element in a way that produces suboptimal antialiasing in order to address some other need or preference is unimportant to the developer.
Making it even simpler yet: web developers will spend any amount of effort necessary to try to reduce a computer into a TV set.