>That's like asking "why shouldn't we allow horses on our highways?" //
We do allow horses on our "highways" in the UK, not motorways but other highways. It's a terrible analogy though as you can't have progressive enhancement of a road for the vehicle capabilities as you can a website.
>But to stop technological advancement in order to appease the lowest common denominator seems silly to me. //
Not serving simple text, for websites where that's appropriate, and then offering enhanced capabilities when the web client can make use of them seems perverse to me.
You don't have to not advance the technology, having radio broadcasts doesn't hold back VR/AR, but if all you have to convey is able to be passed on in an audio stream then purposefully designing a site to be hostile to clients that can only consume an audio stream to me is wrong. Sure add on an immersive environment where one can play on a VR beach whilst listening to your "24/7 wave noises" but don't make it so that simple audio access is impossible if the primary content only requires that.
In other words don't require webgl so I can see your store opening times.
We do allow horses on our "highways" in the UK, not motorways but other highways. It's a terrible analogy though as you can't have progressive enhancement of a road for the vehicle capabilities as you can a website.
>But to stop technological advancement in order to appease the lowest common denominator seems silly to me. //
Not serving simple text, for websites where that's appropriate, and then offering enhanced capabilities when the web client can make use of them seems perverse to me.
You don't have to not advance the technology, having radio broadcasts doesn't hold back VR/AR, but if all you have to convey is able to be passed on in an audio stream then purposefully designing a site to be hostile to clients that can only consume an audio stream to me is wrong. Sure add on an immersive environment where one can play on a VR beach whilst listening to your "24/7 wave noises" but don't make it so that simple audio access is impossible if the primary content only requires that.
In other words don't require webgl so I can see your store opening times.