Hello my fellow deviants. I'm here to express my disappointment of what the web looks like in these days. (Journal entry sponsored by Google Image search)

So, where to begin? Oh, yes. A strange feeling it is, to have web browser hang up because of a website, isn't it? Indeed, my firefox crashed few times after entering the "better, new" images.google.com site, and even if it doesn't die then, loading of the page can take up to 30 seconds and makes my system hardly responsive. "What the hell?" - was my first thought, which then turned into "What the fuck?!" after seeing both cores of my C2D sweating at 100% of their power, only to please the browser.

The "Web 2.0" trend - that's our culprit! His minions are: JavaScript (the way it is used) - lots of websites make my browser scream in agony after executing shitload of scripts, which don't give any functionality in return. deviantArt - dynamic message center? oh c'mon! Last.fm - moveable JS popup divs with information, that my action succeded? Yeah, I always dreamt about it. Google - image search, 'nuff said. And that's only tip of an iceberg. Then there is  Flash, I think no comments are needed, HTML5 - embedding videos on webpages?! what the fuck? what kind of moron invented this?!, IP geolocation - oh, come on! Doesn't anyone in there in Google know, that HTTP protocol specifies an "Accept-Language" header? You don't have to do any magic to display me page in language which I want it to be in...
Every one of those features brings only one association to my mind - cancer. Those *cough*technologies*cough* literally kill the internet.

Of course I, myself, don't remember the good ol' times, when the web was simple, when it's main aim was to bring information. I know the web only from times, as I call them, "shine, don't work" (software and hardware are also affected by this philosophy). Nowadays the applications, mobiles, PDAs etc. have to look good, not function good. What a shame isn't it? But enough, that's all on this topic.

On the brighter side of life. Soon I'll be making my own website. I'll try to use "the good ones" of web technologies, that is: XML+XSLT, XHTML, CSS. I may even deploy SOME JS (I don't say JS is completely bad! Form validation, "select all", when user has lots of checkboxes, those are good examples of good JS usage. I'm only unhappy of existence of AJAX, this shitty white square on black background image displaying, etc, etc.). For now I was writing the server side of audioscrobbler which I'll need for some fancy features. I did it instead of using last.fm API, because I wanted have my own data right on my webserver. Then I had to write the client, because all MPD audioscrobblers which allowed usage of custom servers stopped working, and the other ones were written in C, or C++ and I would have to patch them... And I'm a Python programmer, who modifies C/C++ apps in a grep&sed way, which wouldn't work this time.

That's all. Cya.