The future of the Web is a dangerous Babylon: people talking to each other to do business, express their feelings, meet their friends, transcend their disabilities, organise revolutions, and economically empower themselves. Obviously, this must be stopped. Bruce will show you his top tips and tricks that you can employ to destroy the web.

1. YaC 2013

2. Bruce Lawson
Open Standards Evangelist, Opera
Literature and Drama degree
6502/ Z80/ COBOL/ FORTRAN/ BASIC
Web Standards Project
Front-end lead, The Law Society
Likes punk rock, Les Paul, vodka

3. How to destroy
the Web
Bruce Lawson

5. Yevgeny Zamyatin

8. The principles of universality of access irrespective of hardware or
software platform, network infrastructure, language, culture,
geographical location, or physical or mental impairment are core values
Tim Berners-Lee

10. Why destroy the Web?

12. There is a problem called Twitter
right now and you can find every
kind of lie there. The thing that is
called social media is the biggest
trouble for society right now.
— Tayyip Erdoğan,
PM of Turkey

13. There is a problem called Twitter
right now and you can find every
kind of lie there. The thing that is
called social media is the biggest
trouble for society right now.
— Tayyip Erdoğan,
PM of Turkey

16. The Web
● Damages trade
● Promotes social unrest
● Encourages mistrust of authority
Therefore...

17. The Web must be destroyed.

19. 32% developers want monoculture
urtak.is/vOtBLj

21. Hippy BS Way
-webkit-destroy: web;
-moz-destroy: web;
-ms-destroy: web;
-o-destroy: web;
destroy: web;
(or use pre-processor or prefix-free)

23. Only allow users with the
right devices in

26. Do browser sniffing

27. A short sad history of browser sniffing
webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
Mosaic NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)
Netscape Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1)
IE: Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 2.0; Windows 95)
Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Konqueror: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; FreeBSD) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Opera: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 9.51, or
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0 Opera 9.51,
or Opera/9.51 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
Safari: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de)
AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5
Chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)
AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

28. New kids on the block ...
Opera 16
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.32 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.57 Safari/537.36 OPR/16.0.1196.73
IE11
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0)
like Gecko

29. Script: https://github.com/404
(27 Jan 2011)
// Detect if the browser is IE or not.
// If it is not IE, we assume that the browser is NS.
var IE = document.all?true:false;
// If NS -- that is, !IE -- then set up for mouse capture
if (!IE) document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);
(Lots more fun at
https://github.com/miketaylr/Snort/blob/master/snort.yml)

34. China
“The proportion of [people] accessing the Internet
by mobile increased enormously from 39.5% in late
2008 to 46% in June 2009, while the proportion of
using desktops and laptops decreased”. (close to
150 million people).
Statistical Report on Internet Development in China, p25-26, July 2009, www.ccnic.cn

35. There is one bank branch for every 14,000 people, one ATM for every
5000 people but a mobile for every 2.3 people in India (563.73 million) .
India has more mobile phones than toilets.

36. “One Web means making, as far as is reasonable, the same
information and services available to users irrespective of the device
they are using. However, it does not mean that exactly the same
information is available in exactly the same representation across all
devices.”
W3C Mobile Web Best Practices http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#OneWeb

38. Require script support or
specific plugins

42. koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/05/123_52401.html

43. Ahn Cheol-soo
Active X has “led to international
isolation
of Korean IT” and “inconvenience
for users.”
Quoted in
Wall St Journal
Image by Jinho Jung http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ahn_Cheol-Soo.jpg

45. Require specific types of
hardware

46. Assume a mouse
foo:hover bar {
display:block;
}

47. Hippy BS Way
foo:hover bar,
foo:focus bar
{display:block;}

49. *:focus {
outline:none;
}

50. Assume a visual display

51. Assume a visual display
<SPAN id=:rg class=toxOdd role=link tabIndex=0
closure_hashCode_l16mgm="177">
Create a filter
</SPAN>

52. Assume a visual display
<SPAN id=:rg class=toxOdd role=link tabIndex=0
closure_hashCode_l16mgm="177">
Create a filter
</SPAN>

53. Assume a visual display
<SPAN id=:rg class=toxOdd role=link tabIndex=0
closure_hashCode_l16mgm="177">
Create a filter
</SPAN>

54. Hippy BS Way
<a href=...>Create a filter</a>
(Enhance with Ajax for JS users if you want)

55. Semantics are wasteful

56. Semantics are wasteful
<DIV id=:rk class="J-K-I J-J5-Ji L3 J-K-I-JO" tabIndex=0
unselectable="on" closure_hashCode_l16mgm="182" act="">
<DIV class="J-J5-Ji J-K-I-Kv-H" unselectable="on">
<DIV class="J-J5-Ji J-K-I-J6-H" unselectable="on">
<DIV class=J-K-I-KC unselectable="on">
<DIV class=J-K-I-K9-KP unselectable="on">&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=J-K-I-Jz unselectable="on">Search Mail</DIV>
</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>

57. Semantics are wasteful
<DIV role=button id=:rk class="J-K-I J-J5-Ji L3 J-K-I-JO"
tabIndex=0 unselectable="on" closure_hashCode_l16mgm="182"
act="">
<DIV class="J-J5-Ji J-K-I-Kv-H" unselectable="on">
<DIV class="J-J5-Ji J-K-I-J6-H" unselectable="on">
<DIV class=J-K-I-KC unselectable="on">
<DIV class=J-K-I-K9-KP unselectable="on">&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV class=J-K-I-Jz unselectable="on">Search Mail</DIV>
</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>

58. Hippie BS Web Components way
<button is=kewl-button>Search Mail<button>
document.register('kewl-button', {
extends: 'button'
});
Use Shadow DOM to add markup for styling reasons.

59. <body></body>

60. Break the URL addressing
system

61. The reason the web is so powerful is that it is a web of information. One piece
of data is linked with another piece of data is via a URL.
Directly addressable content is what makes web apps better
than desktop apps.
danwebb.net/2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs

62. #!
See isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs

63. NYSE Euronext prohibits ... unauthorized hypertext
links by others to the NYSE Euronext Web-site.
NYSE Euronext reserves the right to disable any
unauthorized links.

64. Use of any Web browsers (other than generally available third-
party browsers), engines, software, spiders, robots, avatars,
agents, tools or other devices or mechanisms to navigate,
search or determine the NYSE Web-site is strictly prohibited.

65. You may print or download a single, unaltered, permanent copy
or one temporary copy in a single computer’s memory of any
Content for your personal, non-commercial use only

66. You agree to review this Agreement each time you access the
NYSE Euronext Web-site so that you are aware of any and all
modifications made to this Agreement since your last visit

67. cybertriallawyer.com/user-agreement

70. Censor the Web

73. Clitheroe
Lightwater
Penistone

74. Clitheroe
Lightwater
Penistone

75. Scunthorpe

77. “We believe that if access to the Web
increases dramatically, there will be
significant social development and
greater political representation
among the billions of people who
currently have no voice.”
- Timbo

78. The Internet contributes 3.4 percent to Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) averaged over the 13
countries covered by the report (21% of GDP growth for
the most developed countries)
McKinsey Global Institute report, 2012

79. The Internet creates 2.6 jobs for each lost to
technology-related efficiencies

80. Most of the economic value created by the Internet falls
outside of the technology sector, with 75 percent of the
benefits captured by companies in more traditional
industries

81. ●
There’s a 10% increase in productivity for small
businesses from Internet use
●
Small businesses heavily using Web technology grow
and export twice as much as others

82. “An increase in Internet maturity similar to the one
experienced in mature countries over the past 5 years
creates an increase in real GDP per capita of $500 on
average during this period.

83. It took the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century
50 years to produce the same result.”

84. WWW

86. opera.com/developer
bruce.lawson@opera.com
brucelawson.co.uk
twitter.com/brucel

87. Image/ screenshot credits
●
Erdoğan photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tayyip_Erdoğan.JPG
●
http://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/32471503853322241
●
xkcd app catoon http://xkcd.com/1174/
●
Quora being stupid http://www.flickr.com/photos/41894155216@N01/8750997471
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Address book photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/anderspee/5243086788/
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Sharks with lasers http://www.flickr.com/photos/starstreak007/3416655056/sizes/l/in/faves-24374884@N08/
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Browser sniffing http://www.flickr.com/photos/timdorr/2096272747/
●
Indian mobile phones http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/3492673512/
●
Telegraph report (Indian mobile subscribers) 15 April 2010,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7593567/India-has-more-mobile-phones-than-toilets-UN-report.html
●
McKinsey report cited in 'What good is the web? Some numbers'
brucelawson.co.uk/2012/what-good-is-the-web-some-numbers/
Good ideas, hard labour, heroism by Vadim Makeev (@pepelsbey)