The future of Web technology

[eevee]

Short today.

There's a lot of new Web tech coming down the pipe, and I keep seeing shiny cool demos of it, but they've started to depress me. Not because there's anything wrong with them, or because of any browser squabbling, but because nobody's using this stuff. (I suppose I can blame that on IE, which is browser squabbling. Ehh

Comments

[krinndnz]

I am really, really wanting to avail myself of that toolkit, too, especially since I/we am/are starting a web-app from scratch in two thousand fucking TEN. I am also mildly on board with "IE9 is the new IE6," and so I am basically going to bite the bullet and just ditch IE compatibility except as a pure afterthought. So yeah. HTML5: it's good shit.

[eagle_bird]

Which reminds me to ask, do you bash out html/css/etc or use a program to throw it all together? I've been doing the former and wondering if there's something magic out there that will make it any easier without dumbing it down to beginner levels.

[eevee]

No, I write it by hand.

[dr_dos]

WYSIWYG is for scrubs.

[dr_dos]

Should IE9 be as bad as IE6 as I'm occasionally hearing wouldn't the world be better off saying "If this looks like shit stop using a shit browser" while it has the chance before everything has to be tinkered with and hacked at to get something half presentable in IE9?

Also HTML5 is basically "If your Packard Bell with Windows 95 on it could run it, your browser can". Nes, Snes, GB emulators, and Quake!

Also one guy months ago started (and abandoned) ZZT in Canvas. http://diod.es/ryanwin/jzzzt/src/index.html

[discopanda]

I think recently I saw a (working!) Game Boy emulator somewhere done in /JavaScript/ of all things!

I suspect it's one of those ("to see if it's even possible"|"because I can, that's why") sorts of projects.

[toksyuryel]

I'm still bitter about HTML5 killing XHTML2 development =/ that had me really excited.