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Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the worth-thinking-about dept.

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?

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  1. I know it's still the web 'cause it still has porn by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as there is a central place for me to go download my midget porn, the web will live on.

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  2. Re:I always thought... by Free+the+Cowards · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every time you use the phrase "fixed that for you," God makes you look like a tool.

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  3. Re:it might be more complex now by Bugs42 · · 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?

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  4. Obligatory by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't agree more. One of my pet peeves is people using those terms interchangeably and then thinking they are the same thing (ie interweb). I can't believe someone on Slashdot even got that wrong.

    YMBNH.

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