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> The scope of HTML/CSS shifted vastly. No, not really. HTML was from the start and always has been designed to specify UIs. From the very start HTML had suppo

> The scope of HTML/CSS shifted vastly. No, not really. HTML was from the start and always has been designed to specify UIs. From the very start HTML had support for specifying UI element trees, including higher-level UI design patterns like buttons, combo boxes, radio buttons, etc, and also supported running scripts as part of events triggered from those UI elements. > Most added features solve real problems. That's debatable, both with regards to "solve", "real", and "problems".

illiarian 3y ago
> HTML was from the start and always has been designed to specify UIs. Of course it wasn't. These attempts to retcon hitory of the web are more and more prevalent these days. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented world wide web and the first versions of HTML for a very specific goal in mind: to share and link textual documents (specifically, research papers). From the man himself: "We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html It was designed in order to make it possible to get at documentation and in order to be able to get people — students working with me, contributing to the project, for example — to be able to come in and link in their ideas, so that we wouldn’t lose it all if we didn’t debrief them before they left. Really, it was designed to be a collaborative workspace for people to design on a system together. https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/#interview https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/#in... "

illiarian 3y ago

> HTML was from the start and always has been designed to specify UIs. Of course it wasn't. These attempts to retcon hitory of the web are more and more prevalent these days. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented world wide web and the first versions of HTML for a very specific goal in mind: to share and link textual documents (specifically, research papers). From the man himself: "We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html It was designed in order to make it possible to get at documentation and in order to be able to get people — students working with me, contributing to the project, for example — to be able to come in and link in their ideas, so that we wouldn’t lose it all if we didn’t debrief them before they left. Really, it was designed to be a collaborative workspace for people to design on a system together. https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/#interview https://achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/#in... "