Friday November 30, 2007 Random ramblings
Friday November 30, 2007 Gone in a Flash: The Disappearing Web
Is it just me or is web content (ignoring video) disappearing from the web, slowly transforming into opaque blobs of a proprietary format? Things that once were described in some flavour of text, now are engulfed in a form so inscrutable that even the clever folks at Google do not seem able to index it (at present). E.g. the Nokia Products comparison page , which was till recently HTML/Javascript, has been reimplemented in Flash. The functionality is the exact same, except that the UI widgets now no longer conform to the look/feel of my platform, and it no doubt takes more CPU time.We might wake one day to find we've handed a good chunk of the web to a single source (particularly with respect to content-creation tools). But, meh, who cares - it doesn't matter, now does it?
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