Design Irony
December 24, 2007
This is what I would like to call as a ‘Design Irony’.
That me blogging for the first time and that too on wordpress, I was just exploring the formatting features. The spell check icon just got my attention; so just went ahead and tried. Irony I guess, the spell check engine of wordpress, one of the dominant blog platforms, alerts me that ‘blog’ is a wrong spelling! Just clicked on it to see what the other recommended words are and realized that blog is not a valid English word according to wordpress.
Blog – WordPress – Thanks for blogging – blog – start your blog – search blog – blogroll all being dominant terms in www.wordpress.com, It’s just a design irony to see that the engine considers blog as a wrong English word.
Interestingly though, the spell engine of my Apple Safari browser acknowledges blog as a word used in human language, which otherwise would be highlighted with red dot underline.
I am sure there are plenty of such design ironies.
What do you think?
ya there are a lot. In vista they had to come up with a lot of patches to get IE working..