Re:Death to Lorem Ipsum – The story behind our app, Lorem Ip...
by wcoenen on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @05:52AM
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The article makes the following (rather weak) points against Lorem Ipsum:
1) Nonsensical Handwaving such as "you'll feel more inspired with real content" and "Instead of your design enhancing the meaning of the content, your content is enhancing your design."
2) "it will take 5 minutes to explain to confused team mates and clients".
3) You might forget to replace the Lorem Ipsum dummy text
The tool doesn't seem to fix any of these. Instead it makes them worse, because it makes the dummy content look like real content.
1) Nonsensical Handwaving such as "you'll feel more inspired with real content" and "Instead of your design enhancing the meaning of the content, your content is enhancing your design."
2) "it will take 5 minutes to explain to confused team mates and clients".
3) You might forget to replace the Lorem Ipsum dummy text
The tool doesn't seem to fix any of these. Instead it makes them worse, because it makes the dummy content look like real content.