Archive for the ‘philosophy’ Category

Truth and Fiction

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Think about the following statement: my younger brother is male. On the surface, that's tautological - all brothers are male. In fact, however, it's false, since I don't have a younger brother. The proper logical interpretation of the sentence is: there exists some X such that X is my younger ...

Constraints are all the rage

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I've posted a couple of times on how constraints can enhance (allow? promote?) creativity. Just to prove I'm not crazy, here's a post from Creating Passionate Users that gives even more examples.

Content, Structure, Presentation, and Behavior

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

As promised, I've continued to think about Jeremy's post on the :hover pseudo-class, and I think I know why I'm not so concerned about it as he is. As I see it, there are four atomic components to a web site: content, structure, presentation, and behavior. At various times and places, ...