Ben Hammersley is wrong and iWeb is rubbish for consumers

Ben Hammersley defends the fact that iWeb's output is the antithesis of good Web practice:

No one visits Amazon to marvel at their URL structure. No one cares that Google uses last century'’s markup. No one uses Flickr because of the Ajax. Buzzwords won't save you.

Look where the text is when you load a page. And 'cause it's an image it's never going to wrap or resize so I'm forced to fit my browsing habits to the page and not vice versa as it should be. Plus it must be an absolute joy for the partially sighted, they can't scale the text and I'd bet dollars to donuts that screen readers struggle even though the text is hidden in the HTML.

Finally I can't cut and paste so getting that quote out was an exciting hunt through View Source. So on one level he's right, consumers could care less about buzzwords and nice URLs but on the other hand, the experience iWeb is producing is still absolutely rubbish.

Validation porn has had its day. Enough about the brushes already: give me some beauty.

Or you could give me some usamajility!