Choke 1.0 Release Notes
Jens O. Meiert, November 17, 2007 / May 8, 2012.
This entry is filed under Web Development, Usability, User Experience.
The success of the Choke Web Dev Platform has been so amazing that the server had to be upgraded to a Cray XT5. A few clarifying notes now that everyone discovered the real nature of Choke.
To get it straight, I tried to keep Choke realistic. That caused some trouble: Since most people scan and don’t read online, many didn’t notice that Choke meant no serious approach to web development; some even appeared offended when they encountered the “disabled” download link or the almost empty archive. Apologies for that, it was a gamble from a “user experience” point of view but one that was important for the surprise effect.
Choke has been a “meiertesque” way of warning about frameworks and excessive use of style sheets. Both issues will be discussed in more detail in upcoming posts on this weblog. Frameworks can be considered possibly useful but, speaking public frameworks, hardly ever the best solution and nothing something beginners should start with in order to learn our craft. We can also note that the more style sheets, the less maintainable a website, even though that’s a rule of thumb that gets emphasized by Choke and other 100+ KB large CSS files.
Right now I hope that there will be more supporters for Choke in its function to emphasize simplicity in web development, so that it turns useful regardless. Kudos to everyone who enjoyed the hoax with me 
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On November 18, 2007, 10:05 CET, Jens Nedal said:
Excellent. Apart from useful javascript Frameworks and other such for various programming languages i think too, that the use of CSS Frameworks as such is utter bogus.
Though i was curious and tried downloading to see what you mixed up, since i was wondering what you were up too. Your reputation for useful content is an ongoing experience.
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On November 24, 2007, 14:17 CET, Piotr Lewandowski said:
Download doesn’t work …
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On December 5, 2007, 2:01 CET, minimal design said:
The only point you made is that people read websites in diagonal… The only warning anyone can get from this is that they should read before they download.
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On August 10, 2008, 11:08 CEST, Pawel Sokolowski said:
For my personally,this project shows a huge _mess_ in webdesign. This css files which name give my sometimes bad memories
shake my screen.I dont look so close for css validation and strict XHTML/XML. Many time I use tables and other depreciated staff, to pass by this moron problems with IE, etc.
Webdesign should by webdeveloper friendly
Its pity so people looks only for something to download, dont even reading posts till the end
but its give You idee what and where we are now with webdevelopend.
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