10 Things You Hadn’t Expected HTML/Javascript Would Do
By Zef Hemel
- 1 minutes read - 199 wordsAbout 14–15 years ago my uncle took me to the university at which he was studying at the time. He had something to show me. He sat me behind a computer in the computer room and started a program called “Netscape”. He typed in an internet address ending with .au
. I saw my first website and it came all the way from the other side of the world. It looked like crap, loaded incredibly slow, but it was cool.
I could have never have guessed that HTTP, HTML, CSS and Javascript would once not become the main way to access information, but also replace a lot of desktop applications. The abilities of the new HTML5 and other web technologies like SVG never cease to amaze me.
Here are 10 things I had not expected these open web technologies would be able to, but can in 2010:
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