Adacito Zoom Script Review

The Adacito Zoom tool is a JavaScript tool that disables all associative linked stylesheets that don't contain the rev attribute set to 'zoom'. In a basic sense, this lightweight tool strips a website down to it's bare bones: text, images, and hyperlinks. This tool can be dragged onto a user's bookmark bar to be used on any website. The name of the tool seems a bit misleading. The only 'zoom' relation to this tool is the preservation layouts with the 'zoom' value in the rev attribute. Alternatively, if they had chosen another name, say "Minimum", then this tool might've been named the Adacito Minimum Script tool.

As suggested by their blog, this tool works best for sites that have the 'zoom' value in their stylesheet. Two provided examples are here and here.
With the suggested prerequisites, this tool organizes the information in a consistent manner. All navigation links are located at the top-left of the screen. The title and the main body of the webpage is displayed in large, block font. All less relative content is displayed towards the bottom.

One thing to note is that this script does not remove ads from the webpage.
Where this script fails is with flash operated websites and websites with heavy use of JavaScript libraries for content management.
For flash websites, content cannot be 'shredded' because the elements on the webpage are not recognized as text or images.
For heavy JavaScript websites, it makes some functionality worse. Most web developers are familiar with the jCarousel feature from the jQuery library. This feature organizes photos in a horizontal or vertical list and limits the number of images displayed at one time. When using the Zoom script, this feature is disabled and all images are shown at once.

As the Zoom script author states, "Clearly, this isn’t an ideal solution but I thought it would be fun to offer it anyway. If nothing else, it’s making use of a microformat: no committees, no specifications, just an agreed use of semantics", this tool gives a simple example of options web programmers can conside for web layout optimization. It's a good start, but does require a lot of refinement.