6Mar/080
Klingon Web Design Code of Honor
While discussing Web Design Guidelines with a co-worker, I flashed back to the old Klingon Programmer's Code of Honor and decided we need a Klingon Web Design Code of Honor instead.
- Guidelines are for the weak. Klingons do not design with guidelines. They design with honor.
- The web server daemon serves the Empire would honor. It must be defended at all cost.
- Klingon web designs do not interface with the user. The web interface must instill fear and respect and overwhelm the user.
- Cross-site scripting exploits are the domain of the foul Ferengi. Therefore, XSS must be hunted and destroyed.
- Cross-site request forgery is yet another foul Ferengi technique. XCRF, like XSS, must be hunted and destroyed.
- Klingon web sites do not authenticate. Sign-ins require a Blood Oath.
- Style Sheets do not cascade. They swoop and dominate the page.
- Klingons battle and subjugate content. They do not manage it.
- Klingons use web design battleplans. Frameworks are for the cowardly.
- Klingons spit at spindly microformats. Klingon data descends as they please upon unsuspecting web pages.
- Web content is not syndicated, it is unleashed.