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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Ahem. http://www.google.ie/search?q=site%3Asun.com+inurl%3Aswf
More interesting than pointing out glass houses is to try browsing flash based sites with a... Nokia phone! Most (all?) don't support flash.
Posted by Kevin Lyda on December 20, 2007 at 01:40 PM GMT #