AgentSpork
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Gez said:
PCs are the has-beens of development. Nobody codes anything for PC anymmore. Games? PSXbox. Web? AndroiPhone. Office software? Replaced by web apps, see previous entry.
It's a wonder there is still a market for keyboards and mice...
Do you even own a smartphone? Because honestly neither the new design of YouTube nor Gmail would look or function very well on one. There's just too much shit going on, and there's not enough screen real estate to properly accommodate that much information. Perhaps they are attempting to better accommodate tablets, which is understandable as they are becoming much more popular on the market these days. Hell, I own one, and it works GREAT for day to day web browsing. Smartphones, however, pretty much still require separate "mobile" versions of webpages that better organize information on smaller screens.
I do not, however, believe that making webpages more accessible to the tablet market means that they are putting up a big "FUCK YOU" sign for all of the PC users. If done right you can make a page cleaner and less cluttered without losing functionality. All you really need to do is find a good design that works well on both tablets on PC. If you ask me, that applies to both Gmail and YouTube's new designs. Obviously there are still some adjustments to be made, but I'd venture to guess that's why they aren't quite ready for prime time yet.
I think the worst thing you'll probably notice as tablets and smartphones become more popular is that web pages will stop using input device-specific functions that wouldn't work universally with both mouse and touch controls. I think a good example of this are hover menus, an input function that pretty much requires that you have a mouse in order to navigate a page. Honestly, if all websites simply stopped using those, I wouldn't see it as any great loss.
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