Re: Generalised approach to storing address details

JOG wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>
> With all due respect, this is absolute nonsense and I vociferously
> disagree. It has been proven in numerous research studies that menu's
> use is deletrious if nesting goes above two levels. Table of contents
> are just simulating their paper equivalents - Hypertext has shown that
> this is inferior to other methodologies. The Web is absolutely not
> hierarchical /by definition/. File systems are the only real vestige of
> hierarchy left and are a well known and are rapidly changing to add
> none hierarchical features - tagging, meta-data, search and database
> driven structuring.
>
> Imprisoning users in Hierarchy and the simulation of paper in a more
> powerful media, are anchors round the neck of IT users that you would
> do well to not perpetuate.
>
>
> Very little in the world is hierarchical. Even the oft cited hierarchy
> of biological taxonomy, breaks down at several points. As a
> contemporary example witness the collapse of Yahoo style directory
> hierarchies for web browsing, which rapidly became unsupportable and
> unusable, and the total domination of pure search in the form of
> google.
>
Ha ha ha ha ha.
You made my day.
This is the funniest post I've seen on cdt in the 5+ years I've been watching.
Who said self-deprecating humor died with the Three Stooges. Received on Wed Dec 13 2006 - 22:03:28 CET