I think AI won’t save us here, our base is broken. The internet is kind of shattered, most of the pages on the wild have broken and even wrong links. Divs doings the work of buttons, the semantics are totally lost. This, at least for me, feels like a good view point on what we can fix first, and with luck have a better internet.
All feedback is welcome.
Japanese websites are really crap. Websites without a modern UI framework are pretty miserable. I hate phone numbers that try open an app I almost never want to click and see a phone call pop up.
What people who yearn for a better web always seem to miss is a vision for the future. So often its going back to the past with simple sites, no JavaScript, HTML+CSS, websites that do one thing, full privacy at the cost of terrible UX. Fuck that use modern tech build websites that allow you to do things real time. Dont just leave a phone number, give me a way to easily submit a booking. Use recommendation engines to serve interesting content. Connect users across protocols. Use the GPU. The possibilities for websites these days is crazy but few really go for it. Only do massive tech companies try and go above a traditional we site but they do it with the intention to create walled gardens instead of build out a web garden.
Despite my complaints I mostly use the sites I complain about. But its why I like the fediverse so much. It breaks the trend of going back to irc and text sites and has a modern web vision.
This is the issue with using dynamic frameworks. Dynamically generated websites driven by JS by people who design for the GUI first rather than the actual source generated to be rendered. Form over function. Its a lack of focus on the architecture of the web and more on what we feel it shpuld be despite what it doesnt want to be.
The tech bros, or how I like to call the Theos online have a very misguided view, they have a specific interest, and a specific point. Usually to sell something.
From the last almost 15 years in the work I can say that maybe 10% of the products would ever need the JS framework of the day, mostly could be just a static page with some island of interactivity and some over the wire server render.
Things that we learned in 2000s with Ruby on Rails, and yet we reinvented the wheel.
So, it’s just sad to see the that current stat is yet broken, the tooling isn’t there, and worse, with AI we will have even more on this bad average.
pages links divs
Sounds like the world wide web is broken. The Internet works fine still.
Fair point. But very little nitt-picky, right?
No? It’s an entire ecosystem people just pretend isn’t there. The Internet is a lot more than just websites
You are so angry, do you want a hug?
No idea where you’re reading anger in that plain statement.
the semantics are totally lost
If you are talking semantic on the linguistic view… Yeah a lot of people can read, but can’t understand the other. If you are talking about html, you are also correct… You know what… You are just correct…
Dammit, this reply is already contracting myself!
