Forking HTML into a static language doesn't make sense

Post by ezequiel-garzon » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 5:08 PM UTC

sergeykish wrote: post #89

ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #82

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Hey, thanks for your replies, and interesting project! Correct me if I'm wrong, but quirks mode applies when the doctype declaration is missing, right? I'm talking about modern, validated HTML documents that have no CSS. And I'm sorry to repeat myself if you go over my comment history, but the whole thing about having to specify all of a sudden in a proprietary tag that I suggest to use the device(-)width as the widt…

Thank you. Ah, so you grudge is , sorry, I was confused by default awful table style. That is much harder, there was no simple answer [1], browsers displayed viewport, some (Opera Mobile or Mini) had text reflow option. One company decided that it is authors responsibility [2], others followed. And now it is bad default. So what can we do? Improve own experience – vote with your feet, inject setting in extension, pat…

Post by earthboundkid » Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

wegs wrote: post #86

earthboundkid wrote: post #85

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If you define early web as pre-1998, then you’re essentially talking about five guys who all had computer science backgrounds. Yes, they were good at their jobs, but it was never going to last. Increasing the number of web developers by 1000x by definition had to drag down their average skill level to the average skill level of the population at large. Most definitions of the early web include the PHP Cambrian explos…

It was before your time, kid. (1) I think you underestimate the early web by quite a bit. It had a lot more awesome than you give it credit for, and if not for dot-com bubble + bust, it would have evolved in a much more thoughtful way (2) And dot-com boom and growing developers 1000x didn't need to involve Netscape, Microsoft/IE, or the W3C implosions of the time. Those were a question of management decisions and per…