I thought the whole point of having web standards was to keep things simple, to be able to do tasks and present information / services in a way that will just work on a range of devices / browsers and operating systems.
It seems that in our rush to do this, and out do the competition some of these basic ideas go out of the window, sure you need to interact with databases and present up to the minute news / updates BUT there has to be ways to do this, the W3C adapt and update HTML to reflect this.
Sometimes I think we simply over complicate issues. Maybe the way to counter this is to simply promote web standards, I am sure there are lots of users out there, (with little technical knowhow) who can relate to websites not working properly or loading in so much that it slows the whole process to a crawl.
I like the list that highlights how things have progressed (or not perhaps) we need to find out What users really want.
Paul
On 25/04/16 09:16, amunizp wrote:
Sorry for side track:
I'm not much of a web-designer, but I do know that adaptive layout can be quite sensibly done alone with CSS.
I thought it can be done with plain HTML5.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
Though maybe we are talking about different issues?
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