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DHTML5
- cheald 16y agoI'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite webpage on the Citadel. Seriously though, this is perfect. It's exactly what we need to dispel the idea that HTML5 is some magical new technology that is going to make every website on the internet instantly amazing.
- olalonde 16y agoWhat's so terrible about labeling a set of technologies? Is it also wrong to call smartphones smartphones because the underlying technology isn't magical new technology?
- cheald 16y agoThere's not a problem with labeling technologies. The problem is that those labels get hijacked by marketing and management types who see a well-done website and assume that it looks pretty because it's that magic HTML5 thing they read about last week, then they start advertising for HTML5 devs and touting their HTML5 products and blathering on about things they really have no idea about and just confuse the whole field and practice. It's "DHTML" all over again.
- joesb 16y agoAnd what prevent marketing and management type from advertising for "DHTML5"?
- olavk 16y agoBut who claims that HTML5 is magical? Even the name HTML5 clearly indicates that it is an incremental improvement upon previous versions of HTML.
- cheald 16y agoLots of marketing/management people do. They conflate "HTML5" with "competent work in HTML, CSS, and Javascript, especially the canvas tag with animations designed to replace the use of Flash" these days to such a degree that it's already maddening. There's this concept that all our ugly outdated product needs is a little bit of HTML5 and we'll be awesome just like BigNameCo. It's a total failure to understand the technology and a misappropriation of the term.
- boneheadmed 16y agoIn terms of stylistics, the initial page sure looks old-school, but I really do love that wormy dhtml5.com effect that follows the pointer.
- buro9 16y agoMy favourite bit is the <title> of the page scrolling.
- anarcticpuffin 16y agoThere looks like a lot of content on there, but I'd go crazy before gleaning any of it with that pointer. Please make it stop! Was this a joke post, an example of poor design, or a serious link to some beefy content?
- JonnieCache 16y agoIt seems like satire comparing the hype which surrounded javascript in the late geocities/early myspace era with the hype that now surrounds HTML5.
- jmillikin 16y agoIt's a joke page, just < http://www.whatwg.org/html http://www.whatwg.org/html > with ugly CSS/JS. The point's to make fun of marketing weasels trying to confuse HTML 5, CSS 3, JS 1.8.5 , and other related technologies.
- JeremyBanks 16y agoThe contents are just links to parts of the "HTML5" specification. The page itself is meant as a joke. From the source: //please don't try to understand this super advanced DHTML script. //it's way ahead of its time.
- some1else 16y agoFinally a memorable page with links to subsections of the spec. Did anyone notice it eats less CPU than the official one? :-D
- adamdecaf 16y agoAre you comparing the official multipage version? Also, the official one has a lot of extra JS features like side-boxes, inline comments, commit messages, etc...
- iPadDeveloper 16y agoThat kind of bloat should never be loaded by default.
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- jey 16y ago(You need to enable JS to get the joke.)
- younata 16y agoThe guy sitting next to me thought it was a virus.
- TimothyBurgess 16y agoHaha I thought it was a virus too at first!!
- scotth 16y agoA virus? What do viruses look like? What made you think that?
- jasonlotito 16y agoApparently they look like http://dhtml5.com/ http://dhtml5.com/ shrug
- fooandbarify 16y agoHahahaha this is brilliant! I remember there used to be a popular central site for finding DHTML widgets back when that was a thing - anyone remember what it was called? (Sorry, I know that is vague, it's all I can remember. I think it was quite popular at the time, though.) I'd be curious to find out if it's still around and still as kitchy as it once was.
- dzuc 16y agohttp://dynamicdrive.com/ http://dynamicdrive.com/ perhaps?
- fooandbarify 16y agoYes! Thank you! I can't believe it's still in operation... crazy.