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You missed Web 2.0, around 2004, the rise of AJAX.
True. I also left out Frames. Web 2.0 for me was too much about aesthetics, but AJAX is very close to JS. Both deserve a spot in an extended version of the history though!
The post also states that Flash was "freedom", which it was only in a design sens.
I always enjoy recaps of tech timelines. Thanks for putting that together. My wishlist of more web timelines with additional/different focus would include: 20 years of web advertising and tracking: this would outline the nuclear arms race between web authors and web browsers' user protections and google ranking algorithms. Stuff like cookies, the invisible 1 pixel image pingback, seo keyword spamming, etc 20 years of…
Imagine if it took 25 years for any technology trend today to go from the US to any other developed country in the world.
I always enjoy recaps of tech timelines. Thanks for putting that together. My wishlist of more web timelines with additional/different focus would include: 20 years of web advertising and tracking: this would outline the nuclear arms race between web authors and web browsers' user protections and google ranking algorithms. Stuff like cookies, the invisible 1 pixel image pingback, seo keyword spamming, etc 20 years of…
Open question: would VRML count as a failure?
Well, I guess my take isn't a brief history, but there is so much fun to learn in there on how we got to where we are!
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True. I also left out Frames. Web 2.0 for me was too much about aesthetics, but AJAX is very close to JS. Both deserve a spot in an extended version of the history though!
It's about design. The post also states that Flash was "freedom", which it was only in a design sens.
What's been lost are the good page layout tools that didn't require manually writing HTML and CSS. Macromedia Dreamweaver once allowed laying out a page without even looking at HTML source. Now, you can't even buy Dreamweaver; it's rental-only.
The amusing thing about web design trends is the dislike of tables, followed by the creation of CSS and JavaScript hacks to create columnar web design. Tables are now back, but they're called "layout tables". What's been lost are the good page layout tools that didn't require manually writing HTML and CSS. Macromedia Dreamweaver once allowed laying out a page without even looking at HTML source. Now, you can't even b…
The history is far deeper and richer than captured here.
Google's Polymer, react and the famo.us javascript libraries seems to be only the beginning of a string of new libraries that pushes html rendering optimisation to new levels and makes it easier to do tweening and handle user events.
