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by deckard1
2286 days ago
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It's a bit worse than that, even. Instead of the abuse of semantic elements, you don't have semantic elements at all. It's a giant mess of div tags. We've 100% given up on accessibility on the web. We've also thrown in the towel on device-agnostic HTML as well. For all of the grand plans of the '90s and W3C, they all failed. Every. Single. One. This includes CSS, which is an abomination. If that weren't bad enough, let's discuss the fundamental core of the web: links. Links are dead. They are buried under a mountain of SPA walled garden jank, teased at (but never granted) on Pinterest or Quora or LinkedIn or Facebook, or out there scamming users with shortened URL services. Corporate users are subjected to annual security training lessons where they are taught never to trust links (email, text message, or otherwise) because the alternative, training users to understand domain names, is just so impractical that we have all given up. Google gave up, with Chrome. They don't even want to show a domain. It's that bad and awful. To give you an example of how shit it all really is, I recently had to look up an issue related to a Microsoft product. A quick Google search lead me to a number of Stackoverflow and blog posts on the issue. I found a number of links, pointing to Microsoft's bug tracker (links from just a year or two ago). And here's the kicker: all the links 404. The bug tracker is simply not there anymore. This is Microsoft we're talking about. They have given up on links. They have so given up on links that they can't even be bothered to let the user know what happened to those links. Things are significantly worse on the mobile web. I would estimate that a good 90% of the web doesn't work on mobile in any sort of way that would delight a user. It's more that users just deal with this massive pile of shit. Watch someone use a mobile web browser sometime. Watch the nonsense they have to deal with. The janky-ass scroll popup sluggish ad-infested dumpster fire. All of it. |
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Hence each website tries to create their own app. Users are drawing in apps that track every move they make and batteries do not keep their charge even to make an emergency call.