I kind of agree here - I much prefer the control over text, until the text gets massive. It's very easy to keep getting lost in one big page of text when trying to follow along a guide of something.

It's also pretty bad trying to follow guides when the text is full of pictures.

Google finance has a fantastic dynamic web application feature - it has a big graph of stock price for the stock you are looking at, and next to it a list of news items relevant to that company and its industry.

As you zoom and scroll the graph, the news items change to only show news for the time period you are looking at.