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I thought DHTML was "dynamic" HTML, as made popular by the Dynamic Duo: http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/ http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/

by aethr 13y ago

quink 13y ago
ns4 = (document.layers)? true:false ie4 = (document.all)? true:false if (ns4||ie4) document.writeln('<DIV ID="bulge"><IMG SRC="bulge.gif" WIDTH=49 HEIGHT=148 BORDER=0></DIV>') else alert("You must have Netscape 4.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0\nto view the examples in this site.") I remember using layers. I was in primary school at the time.
smacktoward 13y ago
You are correct, it was, as my dog-eared copy of O'Reilly's doorstop on the subject (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924949.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924949.do) can attest. Hey, there's another one for the list: only '90s web developers know what it's like to have to learn new technologies by going to Barnes & Noble and buying a book about them.
- dalke 13y ago
  Really? I learned about NCSA httpd from the online documentation at hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu and talking to one of the authors. Granted, I was at UIUC at the time, and knew some of the Mosaic developers as well. ;)
- saraid216 13y ago
  Oh god, I still have my Javascript 1.2 book. =/ Part of me wants to build a bonfire and toss it on. The other part of me goes, "But that's a book. A completely useless except as a curiosity for historians book, but still a book."
  - zeckalpha 13y ago
    It's not too far off. I've got the same one, and it's the only JavaScript book I've got!
- yardie 13y ago
  Buy books?! who the hell does that. No, you would go to Barnes and Noble, or Borders, find a nice comfy chair and read until your eyes bled. You justified it by reminding yourself that the book was already obsolete from the moment it was printed so you didn't need to buy it, anyway.
- endlessvoid94 13y ago
  This is so true. I remember learning Java from a book, and many of my lightbulb moments about programming came from reading code, not writing it.
cheeaun 13y ago
... and Dynamic Drive I guess? http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ :)
- jack-r-abbit 13y ago
  OMG... Dynamic Drive was pretty much my go to JavaScript hack site. Oh the frustration when taking two little snippets and finding out they were not compatible with each other. And then the elation when you managed to rewrite them to make them work together. EDIT: Holy crap... I still have the bookmark for DD (and JavaScript Kit at the old http://www.wsabstract.com http://www.wsabstract.com domain) in an "Imported" bookmarks folder in Chrome. I'm not sure how many browsers those have been through over the years.
  - thousande 13y ago
    and then to see one of the browsers go down in flames after all the efforts. But you gained a lot of arcane knowledge in the end, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets/tz_bFbZUX10 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.infosystems.www...
Cacti 13y ago
It was a joke related to everyone falling over themselves now for distributed anything in the way that everyone fell themselves for anything dynamic back in the day.

I thought DHTML was "dynamic" HTML, as made popular by the Dynamic Duo: http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/ http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/

by aethr 13y ago

I thought DHTML was "dynamic" HTML, as made popular by the Dynamic Duo: http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/ http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/

quink 13y ago

ns4 = (document.layers)? true:false ie4 = (document.all)? true:false if (ns4||ie4) document.writeln('<DIV ID="bulge"><IMG SRC="bulge.gif" WIDTH=49 HEIGHT=148 BORDER=0></DIV>') else alert("You must have Netscape 4.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0\nto view the examples in this site.") I remember using layers. I was in primary school at the time.

smacktoward 13y ago

You are correct, it was, as my dog-eared copy of O'Reilly's doorstop on the subject (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924949.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924949.do) can attest. Hey, there's another one for the list: only '90s web developers know what it's like to have to learn new technologies by going to Barnes & Noble and buying a book about them.

dalke 13y ago
Really? I learned about NCSA httpd from the online documentation at hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu and talking to one of the authors. Granted, I was at UIUC at the time, and knew some of the Mosaic developers as well. ;)
saraid216 13y ago
Oh god, I still have my Javascript 1.2 book. =/ Part of me wants to build a bonfire and toss it on. The other part of me goes, "But that's a book. A completely useless except as a curiosity for historians book, but still a book."
- zeckalpha 13y ago
  It's not too far off. I've got the same one, and it's the only JavaScript book I've got!
yardie 13y ago
Buy books?! who the hell does that. No, you would go to Barnes and Noble, or Borders, find a nice comfy chair and read until your eyes bled. You justified it by reminding yourself that the book was already obsolete from the moment it was printed so you didn't need to buy it, anyway.
endlessvoid94 13y ago
This is so true. I remember learning Java from a book, and many of my lightbulb moments about programming came from reading code, not writing it.

cheeaun 13y ago

... and Dynamic Drive I guess? http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ :)

jack-r-abbit 13y ago
OMG... Dynamic Drive was pretty much my go to JavaScript hack site. Oh the frustration when taking two little snippets and finding out they were not compatible with each other. And then the elation when you managed to rewrite them to make them work together. EDIT: Holy crap... I still have the bookmark for DD (and JavaScript Kit at the old http://www.wsabstract.com http://www.wsabstract.com domain) in an "Imported" bookmarks folder in Chrome. I'm not sure how many browsers those have been through over the years.
- thousande 13y ago
  and then to see one of the browsers go down in flames after all the efforts. But you gained a lot of arcane knowledge in the end, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets/tz_bFbZUX10 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.infosystems.www...

Cacti 13y ago

It was a joke related to everyone falling over themselves now for distributed anything in the way that everyone fell themselves for anything dynamic back in the day.