This would certainly be possible if developers/corps weren’t absolutely gaga for piling up complexity and ceaselessly changing shit for the hell of it. Facebook could and should serve stable, semantic HTML instead of javascript-ridden, ever-changing div soup. It wouldn’t make their development work any harder. In fact it would probably make it easier.
Unfortunately, in capitalism that’s too much to ask, because it would improve everyone’s lives except the ad industry’s.
Perhaps some sites can be excused from this because they really do fall on the app side of the document–app spectrum. Google Maps comes to mind, but Facebook? They’re just bad internet citizens.
Unfortunately, in capitalism that’s too much to ask, because it would improve everyone’s lives except the ad industry’s.
Perhaps some sites can be excused from this because they really do fall on the app side of the document–app spectrum. Google Maps comes to mind, but Facebook? They’re just bad internet citizens.