A Brief History of Web Design for Designers
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A Brief History of Web Design for Designers
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#2"The dark ages of web design (1989)"
The Golden Age of Accessibility maybe :-\
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#3I was hoping for a little trip down memory lane in terms of aesthetics. All of the gifs are beautiful, but look like they are from 2014!
A really nice overview otherwise.
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#4I like how in the "what's next" section, we still don't have vertical centering.
Thanks CSS!
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#5You missed Web 2.0, around 2004, the rise of AJAX.
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#6You missed Web 2.0, around 2004, the rise of AJAX.
Designers don't care about that...it's dangerously like code.
Note also the omission of SVG support, WebGL, or any of a number of similar technologies that actually make the loss of Flash compelling.
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#7You 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!
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#8"The dark ages of web design (1989)" The Golden Age of Accessibility maybe :-\
Except not that many of us had means to access that information. I totally agree with this though: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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#9I 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 web technology failures: Java applets, XHTML, semantic web, etc. It's instructive to use hindsight to explain why some technologies/ideas don't get adopted.
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#10I like how in the "what's next" section, we still don't have vertical centering. Thanks CSS!
flex box is on its way =D (I hope, lol)