Granted, but there are a lot of applications and interaction styles that you couldn't build if you didn't have non-textual inline content. There's also the question of causality; did the internet and computers become faster because webpages and applications got bigger, or does the growth in page and software size anticipate future improvements in the capabilities of the infrastructure. Discuss.
I'm playing devil's advocate though. We've (thankfully) got past the point where every website replaced <ul> with a series of coloured balls, which is a step forward, but the aesthetics of the web are still largely informed by those of print media. Even with CSS and XSLT, a lot of websites overuse inline images.
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Date: 2006-09-26 03:50 pm (UTC)I'm playing devil's advocate though. We've (thankfully) got past the point where every website replaced <ul> with a series of coloured balls, which is a step forward, but the aesthetics of the web are still largely informed by those of print media. Even with CSS and XSLT, a lot of websites overuse inline images.