Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999
I've said it before, I'll say it again:  it's time to divorce the present browser into several different regimes:<p>• A reading app.  Styled on ePub readers, services such as Readability / Instapaper / Pocket, or bibliographic tools (which serve to manage content for searchability client-side).  Inclusive of forums-oriented software and feed-reading.<p>• An applications platform.  Preferably with a consistent set of widgets (one of the key failures of present Web design).<p>• An e-commerce platform, with payment and security features integrated.<p>• Free-standing media playback tools (already substantively extant).<p><a href="http://redd.it/256lxu" rel="nofollow">http://redd.it/256lxu</a><p>Web design is not the solution.  Web design is the problem.<p>If I could have a tool to 1) remove all styling from a site, 2) reduce it to fundamental semantic markup (and here the HTML5 standard actually does provide a solid framework), and 3) apply <i>my own</i> preferred settings (fonts, margins, font-size, foreground/background colors) to every damned page, with minimal styling allowed, I'd be far happier.