[lit-ideas] Re: Life Magazine

Andreas, as usual, is wrong in an interesting way. Which is way better than 
being right in a boring way.

> The demise of newspapers and magazines is accelerating.

> To this, you can add the demise of the web. Yep, the web. Remember the web?

> I met with Yahoo a few weeks ago in LA and they told me that the UK, more 
> people use Yahoo 
on PDAs than with desktop computers. Yahoo and others are retooling their 
websites so these 
are accessible via PDAs. That means... no more web design that makes sense on a 
large 
screen. High resolution photos, lots of graphics, etc., is out due to the 
bandwidth limits 
for PDAs. <

I'd call it the return of web, not demise. The original point of HTML was 
device independence. Instead of formatting text to say certain size of paper 
like pdf, a markup language specifies the structure and lets the device format 
it for the screen. Which is handy given that screens range from 34" TVs to 
PDAs. This is a bad thing for bells-and-whistles web design. Which in itself is 
a good thing. More content, less gimmicks.

Someone, might have been Andreas, summed up blogs as what web was supposed to 
be before we got carried away with all the eye candy. Same with PDA/Mobile 
sites.


Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland





 
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