Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'? 312
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the transforming nature of the Web now that Tim Berners-Lee's early vision has been supplanted by today's much more complex model. AJAX, Google Web Toolkit, Flash and Silverlight all have McAllister asking, 'Is [the Web] still the Web if you can't navigate directly to specific content? Is it still the Web if the content can't be indexed and searched? Is it still the Web if you can only view the application on certain clients or devices? Is it still the Web if you can't view source?' Such questions bely a much bigger question for Web developers, McAllister writes. If today's RIAs no longer resemble the 'Web,' then should we be shoehorning these apps into the Web's infrastructure, or is the problem that the client platforms simply aren't evolving fast enough to meet our needs?" If the point of 'The Web' is to allow direct links between any 2 points, is today's web something entirely different?
I know it's still the web 'cause it still has porn (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's the Web 2.0 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh No! (Score:5, Funny)
Complex porn? You mean like porn with things like sqrt(-boobs)?
Re:I always thought... (Score:5, Funny)
Every time you use the phrase "fixed that for you," God makes you look like a tool.
Re:it might be more complex now (Score:5, Funny)
theres still more porn on the inter tubes than one can shake a stick at
When referencing porn, could you PLEASE choose a better expression?
Re:I always thought... (Score:5, Funny)
God is not required for that step. :-P
Cheers
Yes (Score:5, Funny)
Have you ever seen a linear spider web?
Yes. And the spider landed right on my keyboard as it came down, too.
Re:More mainstream... more useless.. (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
YMBNH.
Re:Oh No! (Score:4, Funny)
You're going to need some real porn to go with that. As it stands, it's just imaginary.
Re:I always thought... (Score:5, Funny)
The people I deal with have the reverse problem: Internet Explorer* is "The Internet". Outlook (or even worse, OE) is "The Email", which is completely separate from "The Internet". Even if they learn to use a webmail service, they assume that Internet Explorer magically takes them off of "The Internet" and on to "The Email".
If you asked them what "the Web" is, they'd look confused for a minute, then say "oh, that's The Internet."
*And, of course, "The Internet" is disconnected from their computer whenever they close Internet Explorer.
Re:I always thought... (Score:4, Funny)
Except for 12 steps -- God (or a reasonable facsimile) is a requirement there. :-P
Cheers
Re:Is an electric guitar still a guitar? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:More mainstream... more useless.. (Score:2, Funny)
Links on the left!
Links on the right!
Web ads! Popups!
Blight! Blight! Blight!
Re:Oh No! (Score:1, Funny)
Of course, boobs and sqrt(-boobs) are both complex. What distinguishes the two is that boobs is real whereas sqrt(-boobs) is imaginary.
Re:I always thought... (Score:4, Funny)
God gets mod points? We're screeeewed!
Re:I always thought... (Score:4, Funny)
One user impressed me, by saying he quit using Microsoft products. Then he explained that he was using "Foxfire for XP".
Re:I always thought... (Score:3, Funny)
God gets mod points? We're screeeewed!
Yeah; he's the only person who can mod something up to +6 or down to -2 ("Heretical").
Re:Oh No! (Score:4, Funny)
log(boobs) == scheisseporn/cleveland steamer.
ln(boobs) == amateur scheisseporn/cleveland steamer.
(boobs)^2 == lesbian porn.
1/(boobs) == acrobatic porn.
Re:I always thought... (Score:4, Funny)
Fixé ça pour vous.
Re:I always thought... (Score:1, Funny)
Excellent point. It really is unimportant.
From now on:
web = ftp = e-mail = usenet = irc = internet = everything
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go internet an archive of old internets and internet logs so that I can post it on internet and also on my internet site.
Signed,
Internet
Re:I always thought... (Score:0, Funny)
That made your point very well, assuming your point was "I'm an unsocialized asshole who really shouldn't be allowed to interact with other people."
Re:it might be more complex now (Score:2, Funny)
And lord knows I like shaking my stick at it.
Re:I always thought... (Score:2, Funny)
And when Internet Explorer crashes, the whole Internet dies (temporarily) along with it. I have heard people say things like this, they must be scared shitless at the effect they can have.