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How the web today is how it has evolved. I think it is hard to change the flow of water. I mean, for example, if Gemini evolved, it would still somehow be what
by docuru 6y ago
How the web today is how it has evolved. I think it is hard to change the flow of water.
I mean, for example, if Gemini evolved, it would still somehow be what the web became!
- ketzu 6y agoI feel similar. Projects like gemini work, because they are niche, not despite it. If it became mainstream similar forces that drive the web to what it is woule take hold.
- l0b0 6y agoYeah, designers would hack around the limitations until the hacks become official (against the original protocol inventors' intent, if necessary), because every company wants to control the experience of their content to an unreasonable degree. I recently turned off the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" setting in Firefox, and it's refreshing to read text in O(1) rather than O(N) fonts. Now if only similar tweaks were as easy to apply to web forms, menus etc.
- dredmorbius 6y agoThe Web's evolution has largely been at the direction of advertiser, publisher, and corporate interests. Not the public, readers, and authors.
- qayxc 6y agoThank the gods it was! I'm still traumatised by the <blink>-tags and dancing banana GIFs of the old days... I mean, sure - 404 pages with dry "Oops" or "Not found" messages are way more boring, but I really don't miss getting to see GOATSE or TUB GIRL (don't look up either if you're not familiar with it) every other time I click an outdated link... There's very little that works if it's development is driven by a community as large and diverse (in terms of sometimes opposing interests and goals) as "the public".
- dredmorbius 6y agoThe design priority of "public, readers, and authors" was given in that order because reasons, which anticipates and preempts your response.