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FYI: Article has nothing to do with memory pointers or linked list peeks, and everything to do with DOM attributes of HTML5 elements and attributes.

• philwelch 16y ago
  Yes, my mind was blown for a second and then I was slightly disappointed. ("Poke" and "peek" are also commands to write to and read from a given memory address, respectively.) It's presumably a reference to old time tables of "peeks" and "pokes" showing what each memory address controlled, or somesuch.
  • ugh 16y ago
    Here is what it says in the credits (scroll down): Inspiration: Beagle Bros “Peeks, Pokes and Pointers” chart for Apple ][ (+) (+) links to this: http://www.lazilong.com/apple_II/bbros/ http://www.lazilong.com/apple_II/bbros/
  • MarkPilgrim 16y ago
    Here's the story about the name: I wrote http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/01/29/tinkerers-sunset http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/01/29/tinkerers-sunset earlier this year, decrying the lack of "tinkerability" of the iPad and similar closed devices. "There won't ever be a MacsBug for the iPad. There won't be a ResEdit, or a Copy ][+ sector editor, or an iPad Peeks & Pokes Chart." One of the common refrains in the comments was that the iPad includes top-of-the-line support for a perfectly open, tinkerable platform: the web. Thus, the "HTML5 Peeks, Pokes and Pointers" chart was born. Also, I just purchased a real live physical original Beagle Bros "Peeks, Pokes and Pointers" chart to hang up in my mancave^Woffice. Next to my Apple //es. Plural. So there's that.