I feel like Illich would have despised the browser as it is of a cowardly sort of simplicity, one that shoves complexity behind a massive amount of bloat leaving only space to participants who can afford the top-of-the-line fastest possible hardware, encouraging the incessant purchase of increasingly faster machines.
In browser application development, ease of use is usually implemented as superficial simplicity, as an additional layer of complexity that hides the underlying layers. Meanwhile, systems that are actually very simple and elegant are often presented in ways that make them look complex to laypeople.
This reminds me of DawnOS's author's note: "Imagine that software development becomes so complex and expensive that no software is being written anymore, only apps designed in devtools."
-- Sent from a computer that can barely display modern websites, and being constantly asked to participate in Slack or Discord channel which it cannot.
In browser application development, ease of use is usually implemented as superficial simplicity, as an additional layer of complexity that hides the underlying layers. Meanwhile, systems that are actually very simple and elegant are often presented in ways that make them look complex to laypeople.
This reminds me of DawnOS's author's note: "Imagine that software development becomes so complex and expensive that no software is being written anymore, only apps designed in devtools."
-- Sent from a computer that can barely display modern websites, and being constantly asked to participate in Slack or Discord channel which it cannot.