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Subject: Re: [webartery] gamma
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:41:11 -0400
From: "Claire Dinsmore" <dinsmore@studiocleo.com>
Reply-To: webartery@egroups.com
To: <webartery@egroups.com>

I think, well at least I try, to keep certain things in mind:

Some monitors [older esp.] often display only X [a very limited] # of colors,
and/or the video cards are lame. I know my work is designed with people who actually care about how things look in mind, and thus they usually have
decent monitors/video cards.  I can't work for older or ill equipped comps.
unless I work [design] on one myself, and as the interest in seeing sites
such as mine doesn't often lie with people who work on those comps., it's a
rather moot point for me.  Is this snobbish? I don't think so - I simply try
to aim at the audience I've chosen, and I don't think people who are at all
genuinely interested in web-art access sites through bad pub. access
computers, etc. often. 

When I get a hit from an older comp [or a 480 x 600
screen. - Rare!] its often a fluke, and I can't imagine they care much for
web art anyway. If they're really interested in work designed on comps. with millions of colors, etc., they can view it in the setting for which it was
designed. If I stopped to think/worry about what everyone sees, [sometimes
damned ugly and not at all what I designed], I would give up on being a
web-artist. 

Now, we could get into privilege issues, the deepening of the
chasm/divide of the have and have-nots which technology necessarily
engenders [I used to be a rather hardcore 'luddite' on this issue], but I
don't think that's at issue here, that is, I think we've make our choices
and work accordingly.

C.

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