> If you want to complain about the state of the Web, at least take into the account that the Web/Hypertext is about more than just text.
Yeah, I was wondering about this. Is he advocating turning the entire web into a text file? How does that even work with content rich websites like twitter or facebook or JS-necessary sites like your favorite music/video streaming site? Yes, encoding text with other technologies to increase the user's experience is going to make your file size bigger, but who cares?
It works poorly. The author makes the mistake in saying that everything that is not text is unnecessary and/or advertisement. There's a lot of cruft on most Web pages, but there's also a lot of valuable non-text info.
Yeah, I was wondering about this. Is he advocating turning the entire web into a text file? How does that even work with content rich websites like twitter or facebook or JS-necessary sites like your favorite music/video streaming site? Yes, encoding text with other technologies to increase the user's experience is going to make your file size bigger, but who cares?