@jwz Respectful dissent, sir. Mozilla's *worst* decision...

@jwz Respectful dissent, sir.

Mozilla's *worst* decision was inflicting JavaScript upon the world, for the lamest reasons possible.

All anyone had to do was talk to victims of MS Word macro viruses to realize putting a scripting language into what is putatively a document, and then *running them by default*, was a monstrously dumb idea.

"But Micros~1 would have..." Yeah. And then Mozilla could point and say, "Word macro viruses at *Web scale?* Are they completely deranged?"

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jwz

@ewhac
1994 called, they want their BLINK tag back.

1992 called, they want their IMG tag back.

22 June at 20:27 | Open on mastodon.social

ewhac

@jwz Well, now that you've brought up BLINK...

When I first saw that tag in the HTML spec, I was convinced it was put in as a sop to convince advertisers that they could migrate over from NAPLPS (used by the Prodigy online service), which defined a blink attribute, and which also got overused.

Also: The browser that shipped with BeOS -- NetPositive -- had an easter egg in it where, every 100th blink, the blinking text would be replaced with "Buy Now."

22 June at 20:38 | Open on mastodon.social

draNgNon has VOTED

@ewhac (off topic) omigersh I haven't seen a mention of BeOS in forever @jwz

22 June at 21:29 | Open on hachyderm.io

Ángela Stella Matutina

@ewhac @jwz

How else could the people we now call techbros have a Neuromancer future where the cyberspace can eat your brain?

We're living in a bad movie adapted from the Sprawl trilogy. You can't have the Turing Police without Turing completeness in the first place.

22 June at 22:14 | Open on social.treehouse.systems