Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It | The New Yorker
A profile of Tim and the World World Web.
A history lesson and a love letter to the early web, taking in HTML, Photoshop, and the web standards movement.
Those were long years, the years of drop-shadows. Everything was jumping just slightly off the screen. For a stretch it seemed that drop-shadows and thin vertical columns of text would define the web. That was before we learned that the web is really a medium to display slideshows, as many slideshows as possible, with banner ads.
A profile of Tim and the World World Web.
Put the kettle on. This is a long one!
Matt takes a trip down memory lane and looks at all the frontend tools, technologies, and techniques that have come and gone over the years.
But this isn’t about nostalgia (although it does make you appreciate how far we’ve come). He’s looking at whether anything from the past is worth keeping today.
Studying past best practices and legacy systems is crucial for understanding the evolution of technology and making informed decisions today.
There’s only one technique that makes the cut:
After discussing countless legacy approaches and techniques best left in the past, you’ve finally arrived at a truly timeless and Incredibly important methodology.
Here’s a good walkthrough of adding microformats to your site, starting with h-card and moving on to h-entry.
Here’s the video of the talk I gave in Nuremberg recently.
Some thoughts—and kind words—prompted by my recent talk, In And Out Of Style.
Don’t replace. Augment.
If the JavaScript API requires a user gesture, maybe it’s time for a new button type.
2022 was once unimaginable to some web folks.
Pushing for a share button type—the story so far…
It’s not because it’s declarative—it’s because it’s robust.