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A lot of us felt like such pioneers in those days. Writing frontend web apps was an emerging and rapidly changing art. Those of us on the bleeding edge read Aja
by TimTheTinker 2y ago
A lot of us felt like such pioneers in those days. Writing frontend web apps was an emerging and rapidly changing art. Those of us on the bleeding edge read Ajaxian.com and Douglas Crockford. I was writing internal SPA apps for Firefox+IE6 with Prototype.js and ExtJS.
My co-workers strongly disagreed with my approach -- to build for Firefox first, then hack it to work on IE. "Why bother when 95% of your users are on IE? That's a waste of time."
But those apps are still being used, almost 2 decades later, with no modifications required (besides a couple of weird edge case hacks for later versions of IE).
Always bet on the web.
- teaearlgraycold 2y agoI’m biased, but the web is the best platform.
- nayuki 2y agoWeb is definitely better than mobile (Android/iOS) apps, as apps are hard to develop and hard to debug.
- ksec 2y agoI remember DHTML before the word Ajax was coined. It is somewhat sad we didn't push this forward to its absolute limit. Instead 20 years later we have very different set of Front End tech.
- RedShift1 2y agoAnd XLST... Actually pretty cool, a standardized way to render XML files. Too bad XML was way too verbose and clunky that everyone basically walked away from it.
- johnchristopher 2y agoI had a flat file blog hobby project that would take ATOM documents and run them through XSLT to render the whole website, all on client side.
- madaxe_again 2y agoI built an entire window manager and trading platform around XSLT, streaming prices and trades using XHR. It never saw the light of day, thankfully.
- RedShift1 2y agoThankfully? It didn't work well or you weren't satisfied with the technology? Rendering too slow?
- TimTheTinker 2y agoThe furthest DHTML got was "here's a cool JavaScript you can add to your page to make it do this". I used to download these from DynamicDrive.com. It took Crockford and Ajax to birth front-end development as we know it today (albeit without modules, CSS 2, or ES5+). It didn't help that so many JavaScript books of the time treated the language like a toy.