I’ve been building web sites for a long time… Long enough to remember, for example, creating pages for IE 3 with Microsoft’s ActiveX Control Pad. Unless you were a real geek back then, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. If you do, however, you might remember what it felt like to be on the leading edge of (pseudo-)web development, creating some really cool pages that behaved like traditional apps but existed within the confines of IE’s borders. For me, the realization that I could develop powerful apps that could be deployed as easily as uploading a file to a web server was a big revelation and what really drove my interest in web development. Times change, of course, and these days we have more than just two browsers to worry about – not to mention a much larger audience. (more…)
Just for a change
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007I’ve been building web sites for a long time… Long enough to remember, for example, creating pages for IE 3 with Microsoft’s ActiveX Control Pad. Unless you were a real geek back then, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. If you do, however, you might remember what it felt like to be on the leading edge of (pseudo-)web development, creating some really cool pages that behaved like traditional apps but existed within the confines of IE’s borders. For me, the realization that I could develop powerful apps that could be deployed as easily as uploading a file to a web server was a big revelation and what really drove my interest in web development. Times change, of course, and these days we have more than just two browsers to worry about – not to mention a much larger audience. (more…)
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