Ditto for YouTube - I remember being able to watch videos on it 10 years ago, with even older hardware and software, and the site was far more responsive than it is now.
Yet it seems if you tell the average web developer that those sites should be accessible with software and hardware from that era, or even older in the case of Twitter (rendering short snippets of text and some small images doesn't require the latest technology, seriously), they'll become confused or indignant, or try to use some absurd argument to justify it.
Twitter and YouTube are great examples of a lot of the disturbing trends in web development today. Whatever it is, it's not "progress"!
I don't "contribute" to either one, nor do I have an account; I just go there to read or watch what others have contributed.
Yet it seems if you tell the average web developer that those sites should be accessible with software and hardware from that era, or even older in the case of Twitter (rendering short snippets of text and some small images doesn't require the latest technology, seriously), they'll become confused or indignant, or try to use some absurd argument to justify it.
Twitter and YouTube are great examples of a lot of the disturbing trends in web development today. Whatever it is, it's not "progress"!
I don't "contribute" to either one, nor do I have an account; I just go there to read or watch what others have contributed.