Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 85.178.105.63]
on November 08, 2008 06:49 PM
Plenty platforms still don't have a viable flash plugin. Yes, easy to forget when you do have flash, but adobe's still sitting on the thing and it still isn't truly open technology. Yet our beloved webmonkeys keep on insisting on it.
In the same vein, plenty of sites, including those supposedly bringing news, ``switched'' to requiring javascript for functions that were previously more performant without. Huh, must be progress. Having a lightning-fast javascript interpreter (if you do, which isn't a given) is still not any excuse to just plug in javascript when it isn't really necessairy. Can we collectively put the ajax crackpipe down, please?
What, ``user experience'', you say? Good point, except that the core of the web was easing information interchange. First thing we did was forgetting that, and we ended up watching dancing rodents. Want to bring information? Bring it. Want to bring ``an experience''? Have you nothing better to share?
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 85.178.105.63] on November 08, 2008 06:49 PMIn the same vein, plenty of sites, including those supposedly bringing news, ``switched'' to requiring javascript for functions that were previously more performant without. Huh, must be progress. Having a lightning-fast javascript interpreter (if you do, which isn't a given) is still not any excuse to just plug in javascript when it isn't really necessairy. Can we collectively put the ajax crackpipe down, please?
What, ``user experience'', you say? Good point, except that the core of the web was easing information interchange. First thing we did was forgetting that, and we ended up watching dancing rodents. Want to bring information? Bring it. Want to bring ``an experience''? Have you nothing better to share?
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