window.open isn’t dead on the HTML5 web

[themoniker]

Originally published at Distractions. You can comment here or there.

Remember DHTML? People making those demos that kept tripping over their own ambition and the limitations of your hardware and which probably only worked exactly right with the correct browser on that one version of that operating system and in a precise conjunction of technology,

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[gaal]

See also http://sour-mirror.jp/.

BTW, any chance you were walking in the Yarkon park earlier this week? I think I saw you - I was riding a bike and wasn't sure.

[themoniker]

If it was Monday morning-noon it was probably me, I walked through the park from Pinkhas Rosen to Bavli (actually, from Tabenkin to Pinkhas, where I gave up and got on a bus for three stops, getting off at Azrieli without my jacket).

It looks like a lovely bike ride.

[gaal]

It was! It's too bad the path to cross over to Ramat HaHil is still closed, I had to turn back before the last stretch.