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It amazes me that people think that a silly 5 line DHTML effect deserves this sort of attention. We were capable of doing this just as easily and just as cross
by jasonkester 18y ago
It amazes me that people think that a silly 5 line DHTML effect deserves this sort of attention.
We were capable of doing this just as easily and just as cross-platform in 1996. Why is it news today?
- jeresig 18y agoSo you were capable of doing this in IE3? I'd pay money to see that.
- jasonkester 18y agoIE4. Yes. You just needed to remember to use DIVs for IE and Layers for Netscape 3. This sort of thing was actually easier back then.
- jasonkester 18y agoThis thread made me all nostalgic for the early days of DHTML, so I went back and resurrected my old IE4/NN3 Joust Clone: http://www.jasonkester.com/joust/ http://www.jasonkester.com/joust/ For the record, that was 1998, not 1996, so I was off by a couple years in my earlier remark. I've taken the liberty of updating it so that it works in FireFox and Chrome now. (Sadly, sacrificing the document.all and document.Layers action that made it so great!)
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoWe could have done this 1,000 years ago. The laws of physics haven't changed. This UI design is progress.
- jasonkester 18y agoFor what it's worth, it never occurred to me that this was supposed to be an innovative new UI metaphor. I just assumed that the author was proud of himself for discovering element.scrollTo(). As noted above, it's not a good UI, nor is it revolutionary or even new. So I guess I have to argue that it is not, in fact, progress.