On 11/26/2014 05:20 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
(most websites suck so bad with a non-GUI interface it's not even funny... gone are the days when most of the content of a webpage is useful information, nowadays finding information is like finding a needle in a haystack of fluff and eye-candy -- but that belongs in another rant :-P)
Hear Hear! Web devs and online content providers alike seem far more interested in developing god-awful interfaces to wrap their content with then actually providing content. The web isn't about content anymore, it's just about JS/HTML m*sterbation and fondling the latest fadwords. (I really, genuinely, wish those people would leave the industry and move to the fashion world where they clearly belong.)
I long time ago, there was a hacker/coder/something like that e-zine that didn't come in an actual document format, but came as an EXE, with the content baked directly into their own [shitty] viewer.
I thought that was the dumbest idea ever, and figured that alone guaranteed it would never reach 90% of the audience it deserved to reach (some of the content was kinda interesting).
But amazingly, *EVERYTHING* works that way now. Well, except that the exe-zine actually performed well and didn't demand to soak up every last drop of memory and CPU from 64-bit multi-core (of which none existed anyway).
or doing image/video editing (though even that is mostly scriptable thanks to imagemagick).
Or AviSynth (not that I've really done much with either).
Supposedly that's "more productive", though I'm honestly baffled how anyone could believe that.
iOS and Android conclusively prove that people have NO comprehension whatsoever of what "easy to use" means. They're easy to *LEARN*[1]. It amazes me that people have become so stupid they no longer know the difference between "learning" and "using".
[1] Although, a large part of those things being "easy to learn" is simply because they take a page out of the salesman's handbook and cleverly avoid calling them what they are: "computers". Instead, they trick people into *not* compulsively shutting their brains off and conveniently "forgetting" basic literacy (as people do with alarming frequency) by waving around the bullshit of "Oh, it's not a 'computer'! It's a 'telephone'!" "Oh, really? I know how to use a phone! So with this wondrously genius iPhone, now I *don't* have to deliberately shut my brain off and pretend to be a drooling illiterate retard!...Wow, look at that! Now that I'm *not* feigning retardation, it's become so easy to use, even though nothing is discoverable or even readable without a rosetta stone and a microscope, none of the input works reliably, none of the software works like any of the other software, and it now takes twice as long to accomplish half as much! Amazing!" Goddamn morons.
