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You! Website making people! Stop hiding - I know who you are!
I would have *words* with you. WORDS.
There are these things called blogs. You may have heard of them. They've been around a little while now. There's also something called time. That's been around a while longer (although some folks consider it to not really exist, but that's another matter for anothertime moment of existence goddamnit, you know what I mean).
These blog things are essentially serialised journals, logging events that have happened in a chronological order. Chronological - implying "in the order in which events occurred".
Why in [INSERT POTENTIAL DEITY CONCEPT/ATHEISTIC PSEUDO-DEIFIED FIGURE HERE]'s name do so many of you insist on having a "next" button to take me to the chronologically previous entry and a "previous" button that takes me to the chronologically subsequent entry? Can you not see that this is ambiguous navigation?
So many sites flip things around like this that that they may as well have "Milkfloat" and "Albatross" links instead of next and previous.
If you're going to use words that imply a chronological relationship, for [INSERT ...THINGY... HERE]'s sake get the words the same way round as the flow of time. Even better, use words that aren't ambiguous in the first place. "Older" and "Newer" are good.
In fact, I am sorely tempted to change my own site to have "Milkfloat" and "Albatross" links the time I work on it. Just to make the point.
Every time you invert the chronal progression by failing to think about what words actually mean, a kitten on the internet dies a little more inside. Save the kittens - don't break the flow of time!
I would have *words* with you. WORDS.
There are these things called blogs. You may have heard of them. They've been around a little while now. There's also something called time. That's been around a while longer (although some folks consider it to not really exist, but that's another matter for another
These blog things are essentially serialised journals, logging events that have happened in a chronological order. Chronological - implying "in the order in which events occurred".
Why in [INSERT POTENTIAL DEITY CONCEPT/ATHEISTIC PSEUDO-DEIFIED FIGURE HERE]'s name do so many of you insist on having a "next" button to take me to the chronologically previous entry and a "previous" button that takes me to the chronologically subsequent entry? Can you not see that this is ambiguous navigation?
So many sites flip things around like this that that they may as well have "Milkfloat" and "Albatross" links instead of next and previous.
If you're going to use words that imply a chronological relationship, for [INSERT ...THINGY... HERE]'s sake get the words the same way round as the flow of time. Even better, use words that aren't ambiguous in the first place. "Older" and "Newer" are good.
In fact, I am sorely tempted to change my own site to have "Milkfloat" and "Albatross" links the time I work on it. Just to make the point.
Every time you invert the chronal progression by failing to think about what words actually mean, a kitten on the internet dies a little more inside. Save the kittens - don't break the flow of time!
