Comments on: The Anti-Web Movement Is Gathering Pace

By: Jane K Elvisky

Jane K Elvisky — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:04:45 +0000

To be completely honest, I just cant agree with this: “Many publishers now seem frustrated with the lack of profit and the loss of character that comes with formulaic, template-driven pages. It’s the first big challenge to the web orthodoxy we have enjoyed for nearly two decades… In a March edition of Wired, of all things, the magazine’s design director called HTML “clunky”, “a central problem” and merely “a design experiment” that “never really succeeded in the way that we had hoped”.”

I would say that having the possibility to use great looking templates, it is much easier for normal people to create websites, not just the tech savy folks that are computer nerds.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:16:37 +0000

So why have publishers waited … the iPhone & iPad bring no new technology. If anything they are a “walled garden”. Why not produce a snazzy interface on the web? Sure, html is clunky if you let it. But there’s plenty of slick technologies to choose from on the web. What has everyone been waiting for? Pathetic. C’mon, innovate people. The web isn’t shaped by the technology as much as it is shaped by Google – everyone crafting their page so it adheres to the search engine. Image how user centric things could be if THAT constraint wasn’t in place. Shouldn’t there be a publisher group that defines how search engines will review sites instead of the other way around? Publishers own the eyeballs and therefore have the power. Stand up and innovate. The anti search movement is what needs to gain some traction.

By: Terry Purvis

Terry Purvis — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:39:05 +0000

” With little prior culture of mobile web consumption, publishers have barely given their HTML efforts five minutes in the sun before preferring to code snazzy, custom, closed interfaces instead in the likes of Xcode and Objective-C, in iPhone’s case.”

If the publishers apply the same thought and discipline to the “snazzy” it’ll be a disaster, as the results of their efforts at producing HTML, a very simple little mark-up language, is a disgrace.

By: Robert Levine

Robert Levine — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:24:49 +0000

>>>Yes, that’s the same Wired whose HotWired portal – one of the web’s first commercial magazines, launched in 1994 – successfully delivered some of the most radical and un-web-like native pages seen online, even to date.

And how well did HotWired do?

Exactly.

By: Name

Name — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:07:44 +0000

What a gibberish, you may have a good point, but could not communicate. Style (if one can call it) is more important than substance….this is one of the reasons all useful Web might suffer some credibility loss. For God’s sake, write simple, for reader to understand not show off with some junk……if you call that, writing.

By: Paul Keers

Paul Keers — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:54:59 +0000

The advantage of app editorial is that it does not have to incorporate search-oriented copy! See: http://www.axonpublish.com/2010/06/08/app-editorial-is-delivered-not-sought/