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20 years ago was 1998. CSS was the modern thing. JS was called DHTML and was used for mouse trailing bouncing balls. XMLHttpRequest debuted natively in IE6, whi
by pmlnr 9y ago
20 years ago was 1998. CSS was the modern thing. JS was called DHTML and was used for mouse trailing bouncing balls. XMLHttpRequest debuted natively in IE6, which was released in 2001, before that, it was ActiveX and nobody used it.
You did create modern sites with CSS, without JS.
- qznc 9y agoThe days of the CSS Zen Garden. For me, the good old times. http://www.csszengarden.com/ http://www.csszengarden.com/
- ktpsns 9y agoIndeed! CSS Zen Garden was my holy grail 15 years ago.
- loopbit 9y ago> CSS was the modern thing. JS was called DHTML and was used for mouse trailing bouncing balls. Javascript was called Javascript and was used, mostly, for form validation. Dynamic menus, animations... - all of which you couldn't do with CSS alone - were called DHTML. You could even use Javascript in the server. > [...] before that, it was ActiveX and nobody used it. Plenty of people used ActiveX and it was useful, sometimes, although it limited you to IE. But you are forgetting two of the most widely used technologies of the time: Applets and Flash. Fortunately both are out of modern web development. > You did create modern sites with CSS, without JS. You did create sites with CSS, "modern" sites included JS and DHTML. Then, as now, I found that most people complaining about Javascript were really complaining about bad coders and bad implementations; The browser's DOM back then and the mess that is NPM today. The language itself has bad decisions (weak dynamic types) and good features (functional capabilities), exactly like every other language out there.
- davidjnelson 9y agoIt's pretty interesting that the version of css which contains a box model (2/2.1) took 13 years to settle as a standard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets#Standardization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets#Standar... ). Also interesting is that it took 8 years for XMLHttpRequest to settle into the version ( 2 ) that supports accessing other origins ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History ) and that Internet Explorer didn't support CORS until version 10 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#Cross-domain_requests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#Cross-domain_re... ), which reached general availability in 2012 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_10#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_10#History ).