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I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite webpage on the Citadel.

Seriously though, this is perfect. It's exactly what we need to dispel the idea that HTML5 is some magical new technology that is going to make every website on the internet instantly amazing.

What's so terrible about labeling a set of technologies? Is it also wrong to call smartphones smartphones because the underlying technology isn't magical new technology?

There's not a problem with labeling technologies. The problem is that those labels get hijacked by marketing and management types who see a well-done website and assume that it looks pretty because it's that magic HTML5 thing they read about last week, then they start advertising for HTML5 devs and touting their HTML5 products and blathering on about things they really have no idea about and just confuse the whole field and practice.

It's "DHTML" all over again.

And what prevent marketing and management type from advertising for "DHTML5"?

But who claims that HTML5 is magical? Even the name HTML5 clearly indicates that it is an incremental improvement upon previous versions of HTML.

Lots of marketing/management people do. They conflate "HTML5" with "competent work in HTML, CSS, and Javascript, especially the canvas tag with animations designed to replace the use of Flash" these days to such a degree that it's already maddening.

There's this concept that all our ugly outdated product needs is a little bit of HTML5 and we'll be awesome just like BigNameCo. It's a total failure to understand the technology and a misappropriation of the term.

In terms of stylistics, the initial page sure looks old-school, but I really do love that wormy dhtml5.com effect that follows the pointer.

My favourite bit is the <title> of the page scrolling.

The guy sitting next to me thought it was a virus.

Haha I thought it was a virus too at first!!

A virus? What do viruses look like? What made you think that?

Apparently they look like http://dhtml5.com/

shrug

Hahahaha this is brilliant! I remember there used to be a popular central site for finding DHTML widgets back when that was a thing - anyone remember what it was called? (Sorry, I know that is vague, it's all I can remember. I think it was quite popular at the time, though.) I'd be curious to find out if it's still around and still as kitchy as it once was.

http://dynamicdrive.com/ perhaps?

Yes! Thank you! I can't believe it's still in operation... crazy.

Finally a memorable page with links to subsections of the spec.

Did anyone notice it eats less CPU than the official one? :-D

Are you comparing the official multipage version? Also, the official one has a lot of extra JS features like side-boxes, inline comments, commit messages, etc...

That kind of bloat should never be loaded by default.

There looks like a lot of content on there, but I'd go crazy before gleaning any of it with that pointer. Please make it stop! Was this a joke post, an example of poor design, or a serious link to some beefy content?

It seems like satire comparing the hype which surrounded javascript in the late geocities/early myspace era with the hype that now surrounds HTML5.

It's a joke page, just < http://www.whatwg.org/html > with ugly CSS/JS. The point's to make fun of marketing weasels trying to confuse HTML 5, CSS 3, JS 1.8.5 , and other related technologies.

The contents are just links to parts of the "HTML5" specification. The page itself is meant as a joke.

From the source:

    //please don't try to understand this super advanced DHTML script.
    //it's way ahead of its time.

(You need to enable JS to get the joke.)

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