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I get it. As an Old, I have watched the web evolve, threw out my HTML 2.0 book not too long ago. Netscape floppies and Trumpet Winsock. CSS being invented by
by at_a_remove 4y ago
I get it. As an Old, I have watched the web evolve, threw out my HTML 2.0 book not too long ago. Netscape floppies and Trumpet Winsock. CSS being invented by people who, I don't know, did they ever hear the four principles of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity? I feel like they heard one of them. A programming language for it that had a ten day deadline. Tables abused like Russian nesting dolls shellacked into layers just to serve as doorstops. Dead-end evolution that thrashed around in the tar pits for a long time, screaming before its expiration: Flash.
And yet the network effect would keep this going even if you had a team of a thousand brilliant people design a rational replacements for all of this ad-hoc cruft that has traditioned its way into being something like a standard.