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Ask Hacker News: What is the most undervalued web technology? (2me RSS)
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- DarrenStuart 19y agoemail for me.
- rms 19y agoFacebook
- xt500 19y agoSIP
- bootload 19y agoI can think of RSS, Atom, RDF. But to me Javascript is the most undervalued. Plain old Javascript - the first mainstream lambda programming language.
- kajecounterhack 19y agoTables. How tedious is it to code beautiful looking layouts nowadays, with CSS and all? Sometimes, I dream of those messy, ugly, large, but easy-to-make-with-photoshop tables. ahhhhhhhhhhh.
- dfranke 19y agoXSL-FO.
- DanielBMarkham 19y agoIf it's just undervalued tech, and not "what's the most powerful tech that's obscure" I'd say it's the PNG file format. Lossless, greater color-depth, and alpha-blending: PNG would make the most difference on the most number of average people's web pages if they used it. Some of this other stuff is a lot more powerful, but it doesn't get my vote for undervalued because I think the audience is anybody who is creating a web page, not just tech guys.
- slashcom 19y agoI'd say there are really only two reasons that have stopped widespread adoption of PNG: 1. The file sizes can be rather large (less of a problem these days) 2. IE6 improperly displays PNG alpha (This is big one). Even the "IE7" javascript hack (http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/) didn't really catch on.
- wlievens 19y agoUnless I misunderstand the question, I'd say Scalable Vector Graphics. A pretty decent format that's very badly supported in out-of-the-box browsers even though it's been in existance for several years. Consistent SVG support would allow a lot of server work to be shifted to the client.
- tlrobinson 19y agoJavaScript, at least up until recently. It definitely got a bad reputation due to it's inappropriate name (trying to jump on the Java bandwagon, nothing to with Java whatsoever), copy/paste JavaScript snippets of the late 90s (giving us exciting features like blinking/scrolling text, fun cursors, etc), ginormous browser inconsistencies, and the use of prototypal inheritance instead of classical inheritance.
- imsteve 19y agoPython browser applets!
- neilk 19y agoHTTP. It's much more than just a means to push bits from server to client. It can be a very subtle way to get entire networks of computers to cooperate in wonderfully scalable and flexible ways.