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Mike Davidson

"Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat."

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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."

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"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."

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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."

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"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."

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"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

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"Be content to seem what you really are."

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"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."

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"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."

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"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

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"How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing."

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Mike Davidson
"For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care."

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Mike Davidson
"For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser."

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Mike Davidson
"Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat."

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Mike Davidson
"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."

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Mike Davidson
"Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people."

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Mike Davidson
"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise."

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Mike Davidson
"I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board."

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Mike Davidson
"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."

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Mike Davidson
"It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you."

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Mike Davidson
"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."

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