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Side note, the author's home page is an absolute relic from the past: https://kovidgoyal.net https://kovidgoyal.net , including things like provisions for 56k m

by jjcm 8y ago

Side note, the author's home page is an absolute relic from the past: https://kovidgoyal.net https://kovidgoyal.net , including things like provisions for 56k modems, iframes, detection scripts for IE3 and AOL, and other gems. It even looks like he has his own pre-jquery compliance library written about 18 years ago: https://kovidgoyal.net/scripts/VisualDocumentAPI.js https://kovidgoyal.net/scripts/VisualDocumentAPI.js

dacox 8y ago
> DHTML takes me back!
ricardobeat 8y ago
And most of it still works perfectly fine on an iPad Pro, in a completely new browser from the future. Good times!
- ilogik 8y ago
  On safari desktop and mobile, I get: > W A R N I N G! Your browser is not supported by this site.I cannot guarantee that things will work as they should. Consider downloading either Mozilla >=1.4 or Internet Explorer >= 6
  - BurnGpuBurn 8y ago
    Considering Safari only exists for about 15 years, and the site is older than that, I think it does a very reasonable suggestion.
  - dewey 8y ago
    It's the same for Firefox (61.0.2), maybe the version number is detected wrongly on the new versions.
jjcm 8y ago
Oh man - there's an Array.prototype.add definition in there. This was written before browsers could be expected to have Array.push(). That's insane.
icc97 8y ago
Wow, he's the creator of calibre [0]. [0]: https://calibre-ebook.com/ https://calibre-ebook.com/
jakecopp 8y ago
And it's so damn fast!
- Avamander 8y ago
  Could be even faster with modern tech like HTTP2, HTTP2/PUSH, gzip, brotli and all that while looking much nicer with some basic CSS. Some additional speed could probably be squeezed out with something like anycast DNS.
  - Svoka 8y ago
    I'm not sure what are you talking about. His site is served with SPDY and HTTP2 protocols https://i.imgur.com/LqGSHUj.png https://i.imgur.com/LqGSHUj.png
    - Avamander 8y ago
      AFAIK SPDY is the predecessor of HTTP2 and the site doesn't use HTTP2/PUSH.
  - snaky 8y ago
    In theory, yes. In practice, all that is inevitably coupled with monstrous pile of Javascript frameworks and dynamic loading and whatnot, and loads for 10 seconds on good days.

by jjcm 8y ago

dacox 8y ago

> DHTML takes me back!

ricardobeat 8y ago

And most of it still works perfectly fine on an iPad Pro, in a completely new browser from the future. Good times!

ilogik 8y ago
On safari desktop and mobile, I get: > W A R N I N G! Your browser is not supported by this site.I cannot guarantee that things will work as they should. Consider downloading either Mozilla >=1.4 or Internet Explorer >= 6
- BurnGpuBurn 8y ago
  Considering Safari only exists for about 15 years, and the site is older than that, I think it does a very reasonable suggestion.
- dewey 8y ago
  It's the same for Firefox (61.0.2), maybe the version number is detected wrongly on the new versions.

jjcm 8y ago

Oh man - there's an Array.prototype.add definition in there. This was written before browsers could be expected to have Array.push(). That's insane.

icc97 8y ago

Wow, he's the creator of calibre [0]. [0]: https://calibre-ebook.com/ https://calibre-ebook.com/

jakecopp 8y ago

And it's so damn fast!

Avamander 8y ago
Could be even faster with modern tech like HTTP2, HTTP2/PUSH, gzip, brotli and all that while looking much nicer with some basic CSS. Some additional speed could probably be squeezed out with something like anycast DNS.
- Svoka 8y ago
  I'm not sure what are you talking about. His site is served with SPDY and HTTP2 protocols https://i.imgur.com/LqGSHUj.png https://i.imgur.com/LqGSHUj.png
  - Avamander 8y ago
    AFAIK SPDY is the predecessor of HTTP2 and the site doesn't use HTTP2/PUSH.
- snaky 8y ago
  In theory, yes. In practice, all that is inevitably coupled with monstrous pile of Javascript frameworks and dynamic loading and whatnot, and loads for 10 seconds on good days.