Comments on: Are you POSH? http://jimbarraud.com/2007/04/25/are-you-posh/ web designer Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:32:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben http://jimbarraud.com/2007/04/25/are-you-posh/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Ben Wed, 02 May 2007 17:19:27 +0000 http://jimbarraud.com/2007/04/25/are-you-posh/#comment-106 <p>A while back the term 'HIJAX' was going around, but never quite caught on as a catchy way to say 'progressive enhancement' (see http://domscripting.com/blog/display/41 ). I liked it but it just pissed people off when I said it. I still find myself having to explain the idea occasionally and wish I could just say 'We'll use HIJAX on top of POSH of course" and be done with it.</p> <p>BTW, I found myself listening to the soundtrack of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' nearly every day over the winter (as interest my son has mercifully left behind). There's a song called 'P-O-S-H Posh' that's stuck in my head now. Thanks a lot.</p> <p>Oh the posh, posh traveling life, the traveling life for me...</p> A while back the term ‘HIJAX’ was going around, but never quite caught on as a catchy way to say ‘progressive enhancement’ (see http://domscripting.com/blog/display/41 ). I liked it but it just pissed people off when I said it. I still find myself having to explain the idea occasionally and wish I could just say ‘We’ll use HIJAX on top of POSH of course” and be done with it.

BTW, I found myself listening to the soundtrack of ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ nearly every day over the winter (as interest my son has mercifully left behind). There’s a song called ‘P-O-S-H Posh’ that’s stuck in my head now. Thanks a lot.

Oh the posh, posh traveling life, the traveling life for me…

]]> By: jpsykes » POSH, nah sweetheart I’m a Commoner http://jimbarraud.com/2007/04/25/are-you-posh/comment-page-1/#comment-105 jpsykes » POSH, nah sweetheart I’m a Commoner Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:26:38 +0000 http://jimbarraud.com/2007/04/25/are-you-posh/#comment-105 <p>[...] is doing the rounds. It makes a nice AJAX style jargonistic acronym that can be used by people who don’t really [...]</p> […] is doing the rounds. It makes a nice AJAX style jargonistic acronym that can be used by people who don’t really […]

]]> By: JP http://jimbarraud.com/2007/04/25/are-you-posh/comment-page-1/#comment-104 JP Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:01:27 +0000 http://jimbarraud.com/2007/04/25/are-you-posh/#comment-104 Whilst I see the benefit of wrapping the term into a catchy phrase that can be sold during white-board frenzied sales pitches by men named Rupert who seem a oddly uncomfortable wearing diesel jeans and a sports jacket and who can use it as they talk about the ‘value-added immersive user-driven rich interactive experience offered by the future information exchange destinations in the modern mob-pod-casting generation of myspacers”. Those people need this, maybe we need it, it helps people who don’t know think they understand… “Ahhh yes, I see, you’re fully POSH accredited, in that case we’ll sign the contract”.

The problem you’ll always have is suddenly everyone will be POSH™ even things that aren’t POSH. For a while it would become overwhelming and then the backlash will begin (the backlash being the reason why so many now use XHR rather than the AJAX phrase). Once the backlash subsides we’ll return as an industry back to a state where everyone is POSH so no one says they are and no one can remember what all the fuss was about anyway.

I’m off to make a aqua beveled badge saying “Powered By POSH” which I’ll place next to my Media Temple Sponsorship and my HTML Editors Guild Gold Star.

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