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There is nothing "crazy" abut "Browsers gobble it up." Along with annotation, this was supposed to be a standard feature of the web, in fact it was built into e
by davidy123 7y ago
There is nothing "crazy" abut "Browsers gobble it up." Along with annotation, this was supposed to be a standard feature of the web, in fact it was built into early versions of Netscape[1]. It just takes the world a long, long, long time to catch up with the bigger background ideas, because there are so many details and so many ways to make money with the immediate.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Composer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Composer
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agoIt wasn't even that long ago that I remember being constantly irritated by accidentally pretty Ctrl-E instead of Ctrl-W in some ancestor of Firefox, and finding myself editing the page. I was actually somewhat glad when this was removed.
- calciphus 7y agoI had one of my team members recently introduce me to document.designMode="on" For the better part of...15 years? I've been using various inspectors and dev tools. Like a chump.