> Most of the really innovative interactive design stuff found its first expressions in the Windows-based versions of Visual Basic, and here’s where I started b

> Most of the really innovative interactive design stuff found its first expressions in the Windows-based versions of Visual Basic, and here’s where I started becoming nervous about where Windows programming was headed. Not only could you move a button onto your form, and interactively position and size it just the way you wanted, but if you clicked on the button, Visual Basic would generate an event handler for you and let you type in the code. At this point in the essay, we find ourselves arm-pit deep in get-off-my-lawn. He goes on to make the argument that a disjoint pile of event handlers attached to UI elements do not make a coherent program. Even while conceding that this claim is 100% true, there most definitely exist cases where all you need is a hand-drawn UI with disjoint event handlers to breathe a little bit of life into the experience. Frankly, most simple web pages find themselves DELIGHTFULLY in this category.