Imagine 1993, text browsing of content with the definitive anchor element for hyperlinks....that is the Web at its core to this day...not apps, not frameworks, not JS and definitely not social media 😉

You mean, you want to actually write something meaningful? No ads? No "subscribe to my newsletter?" no "javascript must be enabled?", no "cookie consent?" no "log in to view the second paragraph?" or "connect with facebook?" I can't imagine anyone interested in that /S

Sebastiaan 😂

😇😂 sad thing is; I'm only partially kidding. I'm amazed by technological development in this area (possibilities are endless) but at the same time, "old-school me" is saddened by how often the original intent is forgotten (form over function)

It more than saddens me that the noble ideals and declarative, International, accessible, meaningful, useful World Wide Web is, if known at all, seen as history or afterthought as with #a11y. We as a profession have yet to create an educational rubric or a professional standard.

I was just a mere web-developer, "victim" of the IE vs Netscape politics, and so happy at the time when things started to (finally) standardize. Can't imagine how it's for you, being at the front line of those battles, seeing where we ended up now!

It's heartbreaking and I have stated outright that I consider it a personal failure that I chose to leave the web standards project because of a contract with Microsoft when in retrospect there wasn't really a conflict of interest as that year and a half was public and open.

Oh man, do be too hard on yourself! Hindsight is a b*tch, and it's all too easy to forget the GOOD things you achieved if you're in the middle of it. 90's/00's 'me' would've never imagined I'd be able to interact with you.. on this website thanks to the work you did!

And Today's me looks back on some "bad" choices we made in container-land, but then looks around and sees the "good" things, humbled by the ginormous number of people using it, and silently proud to have made a difference.