That is what the web has become. A platform to selling products.
But why did it have to be so? Why couldn't it also have been a medium for expressing beauty?
It still HOSTS a lot of art - art in the form of images.
But the number of truly beautiful artistic WEBSITES - in CSS, HTML, etc, are few and far between.
Hell, I remember the heyday of Flash - before Apple smothered it. There were some INCREDIBLY gorgeous websites with absolutely incredible animations and visuals.
Of course they were dogshit for accessibility, discoverability, information presentation, etc. Not to mention the apalling security/performance of Flash. So I don't wish the whole web was like that.
That is what the web has become. A platform to selling products.
But why did it have to be so? Why couldn't it also have been a medium for expressing beauty?
It still HOSTS a lot of art - art in the form of images.
But the number of truly beautiful artistic WEBSITES - in CSS, HTML, etc, are few and far between.
Hell, I remember the heyday of Flash - before Apple smothered it. There were some INCREDIBLY gorgeous websites with absolutely incredible animations and visuals.
Of course they were dogshit for accessibility, discoverability, information presentation, etc. Not to mention the apalling security/performance of Flash. So I don't wish the whole web was like that.
But we did lose something.