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The modern web is primarily distinguished by its custom ui/media, as opposed to the old school web which put textual information first and allowed clients more
by throwaway09223 4y ago
The modern web is primarily distinguished by its custom ui/media, as opposed to the old school web which put textual information first and allowed clients more control over presentation. The problems this creates are:
* Accessibility - I can't change presentation to make things easier for me to consume
* Inspectability - I can't search, index, etc. Information is hidden behind js driven interfaces that only present bits at a time.
* Uniformity - I don't want to deal with a deluge of clever interfaces. I want the data only, and I want control over how I will present the data to myself.
* Buggy - All these custom JS driven interfaces means a never ending deluge of weird interaction bugs, most of which we just ignore. Pages are needlessly slow or error prone.
- ehutch79 4y agoYou don't get out much do you? Not if you consider that a hellscape.
- spac 4y agoI find this comment absolutely inappropriate for this forum.
- trasz 4y agoThere are two ways to read that comment. One is like you say. The other - as “someone who doesn’t go out much”, this actually resonates, in a weird way: “the Unix way” resulted in user having a proper control and their environment being predictable and thus trustworthy. Compared to that, the web is not only technologically inferior (Chromium LoC alone is enough to tell), but also as unreliable and unpredictable as many other things IRL.