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>users have come to expect certain UI elements on any given web page and those things are far beyond "content". Usually I visit pages to see if the content is

>users have come to expect certain UI elements on any given web page and those things are far beyond "content". Usually I visit pages to see if the content is worth my time. If the 'UI elements' somehow contribute to that content, great. That's rare. Most pages I hit are hiding poor content in swathes of katchi-vatchi. Do I really care if the headline slides down that big photo? Am I really going to scan those glaring sidebars? Once again I sigh and mouse-up to Firefox's 'Reader view' to cut through all that bandwidth-wasting crap.

megameter 6y ago
Right. There's an element cleaving both ways of the developer being obligated to do complex and disempowering things for users for various reasons, and then users rejecting their disempowerment and trying to work around it. And I think if there's a future here it belongs to targeted protocols that decouple the use case from the UI, and filters like Reader view that reformat content to the medium the user wants to work in.