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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. Re:I always thought... by Filip22012005 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...or any other steps.

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  2. Re:I always thought... by hostyle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just because you want to "Enter-(Cowboy)-Nea(l)" doesnt make it so ...

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