Griping about the Web

A List Apart is an excellent blog for people who do web design. This Valentines Day, they hosted their own little massacre and invited some web design notables to comment on those things that drive them nuts...

Valentine's Day Massacre
by Our Gentle Readers

Roses are red, violets are blue, sometimes dear web, we sure hate you.

Daniel Aitken, web designer, proprietor
What angers me in today�s web, is the term �Web 2.0.� It�s the �2.0� specifically�the idea that the entire web is in for an upgrade, a change for the better to version two.

The web is not a singular application, it is a fluid interface. A means of information distribution, of functionality, of user-interoperability. It does not constrain to any idea of what an application is, because it is the combination of individual applications that make it so fluid. New coding techniques are constantly created, new hacks and workarounds for non-standards-compliant browsers. New ways of putting together existing code are being thought of and put into use every day somewhere on the millions of web pages the internet is home to. We aren�t yet on web 2.0, or internet 2.0, or computing 2.0. This is a dynamic change that will continue to happen whether or not we apply version numbers. The mass of netizens has triggered the implementation of web based applications, not a developer meeting that decided on the version change.

And over 20 more -- excellent ideas and thoughts on web design.