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0. Country/state legislators starts discussing mandatory html version for static content. 1. Some website (not « webapps ») start providing an html only versio
by aziaziazi 3y ago
0. Country/state legislators starts discussing mandatory html version for static content.
1. Some website (not « webapps ») start providing an html only version.
2. First users wave engage: plenty of hn readers
, others techies, people with disabilities. Some news enthusiasts find it useful to consume articles (and the web !) as a simple and peacefull content browsing way.
3. First wave share their enthusiasm. Others sites catch up. Second wave with people from all sides, including:
4. PM, advertisers, marketers, businessmans… all at them have different opinions about this. However those who have direct or indirect interests with online advertising also fear kpis decrease.
5. A bunch of ad lobbyist flood the legislators. End of legislation discussion.
- SilasX 3y agoStep 5 seems like an uphill battle. I suspect it will be more like, gradual extension of the new standard to support advertiser-beloved features, to the point that the original upsides of the standard are broken, as users have to keep chasing feature support. My earlier comments on this dynamic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30727672 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30727672