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I saw a lot of people trying to avoid HTML in their websites in the past. The flash ones are the obvious example, but I once had the pleasure of an entire site
by Latty 9y ago
I saw a lot of people trying to avoid HTML in their websites in the past.
The flash ones are the obvious example, but I once had the pleasure of an entire site that looked like any other, except it took forever to load and links worked weirdly.
That was because the entire site was an image map over a giant .bmp for each page.
- fiala__ 9y agoOh yes, totally forgot about flash and `<map>`s – but one could argue even those were originally designed to solve the problems of 'vanilla' HTML. They of course failed and HTML kind of prevailed, but only by being coupled with a massive set of APIs on the Web Platform. If it wasn't for those JS APIs, we might be stuck with Flash forever.
- donatj 9y agoLol, I remember working in a place where half the devs SWORE Flex was the future of all websites. Really worked out :) I also remember converting a site made entirely of Java applets to html and JavaScript in the early 2000s.