Re:Something is wrong with this picture.
by laughinghan on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @01:13AM
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They deliberately don't let you define whatever abstractions are meaningful you, it's called the Principle of Least Power: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html#PLP
Just explaining that what you consider a "strange" design choice is actually deliberate and carefully thought out, not defending it--for all I know, it might have been carefully reasoned out but the wrong conclusions reached--but the results stand for themselves: a platform that is now synonymous with "the Internet".
Yes, but that's simply a failure from having no ability to define abstractions.
Separating form/design/layout from content is one possible abstraction boundary, but it's just one arbitrary one, so it's kind of strange that they tried to bake it into the platform instead of making it easier to define whatever abstractions are meaningful for you.