Choke 1.0 Release Notes
Jens Meiert, November 17, 2007 / March 2, 2008.
This entry is filed under Web Development, Usability, User Experience.
The success of the Choke Web Dev Platform has already been so amazing that the server even needed to be upgraded to a Cray XT5, but some clarifying notes seem to be useful now that everyone discovered the real nature of Choke.
To get it straight, I intentionally kept Choke realistic but apparently caused trouble though: Since most people scan and don’t read online, many didn’t really notice that Choke meant no serious approach to web development, and some even felt insulted when they encountered the “disabled” download link or the almost empty archive later. Apologies for that, it was a risky move from a “user experience” point of view but one that was crucial for the surprise effect.
It meant an exception, too, since this site aims to provide helpful content (as should have been proved several times already), even within trivial, chit-chat posts.
Anyway, Choke was just a “meiertesque” way to warn of frameworks and excessive use of style sheets. Both issues will be addressed in upcoming posts on this weblog, but we can surely consider certain frameworks as potentially useful but also meaning never the best solution and something that beginners shouldn’t start with in order to learn their craft; we may also note that the more style sheets, the less maintainable the website, too, even though that’s just a basic rule of thumb, ridiculed by Choke, especially when thinking of 100+ KB large CSS files.
For now I hope that there will be more friends of Choke in its function to emphasize simplicity in web development, so that it turns useful nonetheless. Sincere thanks to all who could laugh about it, too 
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Comments
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On November 18, 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, 14:17 CET, Piotr Lewandowski said:
Download doesn’t work …
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On November 25, 19:14 CET, Jens Meiert said:
Piotr, in English, please (translated your comment though)
The download should work, though you probably refer to the “different” size?
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On December 5, 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.
