slef - 7:51 pm on Oct 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

lexipixel wrote "make sure that people with TTY output, Mono-herc and other limited pallette graphic display" - hopefully that was in jest, but you should try to avoid obstructing people who have colour-blindness or contrast perception impairment.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a site which used near-identical red/green indicators in the same position for a yes/no response, with unhelpful tooltips - only the colour changed. Let's just hope that sort of web designer doesn't ever move into traffic light design... do web 2.0 designers study other design work like older webmasters did, or are all old design ideas irrelevant because, hey, it's web 2.0?