Personally, I think it’s lipstick on a pig, but that’s because I’m wise enough to recognize a lack of content for what it is - a lack of content. That trend is snowballing, especially with the noise that surrounds “ Web 2.0” - every page has to be a double dose of Flash and AJAX, sprinkled with a liberal splash of pointless animated gifs and embedded music tracks, pop-up link previews, single-click RSS feeds and a comment form to boot. The Web is inherently graphical, even if the content is still primarily words and text.
Text-only browsers are something of an oxymoron, especially nowadays. Some of the text may no longer correspond to the image please let me know if it’s confusing and I’ll re-edit it. As it is however, this post is well over two years old. 6, 2009: I’ve reuploaded a fresh set of images for this post, after the former provider suddenly decided to dump postcard-sized ads on the page.
