In a Land Before Dev Tools | Amber’s Website
A great little history lesson from Amber—ah, Firebug!
Historical Trails
Maggie explores different ways of visualising journeys on the web, including browser histories:
Perhaps web browsing histories should look more like Git commit histories? Perhaps distinct branches could representing different topics and research avenues?
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Yet Another JavaScript Framework | CSS-Tricks
This is such a well-written piece! Jay Hoffman—author of the excellent History Of The Web newsletter—talks us through the JavaScript library battles of the late 2000’s …and the consequences that arose just last year.
The closing line is perfect.
The Web is not Fashionable. - The blog of Ada Rose Edwards
This is such a great perspective on what it’s like to build for the web over the long term. The web will always be a little bit broken, and that’s okay—we can plan for that.
The Web has history. If you build with web technology it will stick around. We try not to break the web even if it means the mistakes and bad decisions we have made in the past (and will make in the future) get set in stone.
The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth - Eager Blog
Another dive into the archives of the www-talk mailing list. This time there are some gems about the origins of the input element, triggered by the old isindex element.
The (other) Web we lost
John shares his concerns about the increasing complexity involved in developing for the web.
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Request mapping
Something I’d like to see in dev tools.
Browser history
From a browser bug this morning, back to the birth of hypertext in 1945, with a look forward to a possible future for web browsers.
Timelines of the web
The World Wide Web is a mashup.