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It's a new technology called "static HTML page"... I hear MS FrontPage can export this newfangled format.

• gamegoblin 13y ago
  At my uni there were a large number of profs with websites that, if you viewed the source, showed that they'd been creating in MS Word. This was a CS department. Slightly depressing.
  • Argorak 13y ago
    I worked a bit in research and HTML was generally treated as a serialization format for other tools and HTTP was considered a dumb transport. I had a presentation about REST&Caching and stepped through many of the low-level behaviours of HTTP, like the properties that verbs have and their interaction with caching. I ended up explaining the whole HTTP verb thing for multiple days straight because it was kind of a revelation to many. Now, the research department worked in a whole different department, web was only coming up as a topic for them and was of tangential interest. My conclusion: CS is a vast field. Don't expect experts in theoretical CS to know practical details. Don' expect practitioners in compiler building to know how to build a website or anything about distributed architectures. It's not depressing, it just shows how vast our field is.
  • roel_v 13y ago
    Yes, because if you design a new alloy for improved performance of an f1 engine cilinder, you need to do your own oil changes too, right?
    • dwightgunning 13y ago
      True. However this is more akin to having your dietician change your oil.
  • dagw 13y ago
    Most CS profs are far too busy doing Computer Science to bother keeping up with the latest trends in web design.