Things You Hadn’t Expected HTML/Javascript Would Do

Re:Things You Hadn’t Expected HTML/Javascript Would Do by chime on Friday September 03, 2010 @08:54AM (#1659373)

This list boils down to:

1. Heavy-duty graphics, including video (canvas/svg)

2. Collaborative text editing (canvas/svg/ajax)

3. Read books in a mobile browser without a connection (localstorage)

I kind of expected a little more variety. Off the top of my head, here's what I didn't expect HTML/JS to do, in addition to the above:

4. Work on almost all new phones, without converting to a special language (Remember WAP/WML)?

5. Have open & standardized libraries that anyone can use to make coding easier (proto/moo/jQ).

6. Enable anyone to write browser-plugins easily.

7. Run as a server (node.js)

8. Constantly improve in performance

9. Be written using templating systems: SaSS, HAML

10. Still be handwritten in 2010 and beyond.

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Re:Things You Hadn’t Expected HTML/Javascript Would Do by BerislavLopac on Friday September 03, 2010 @12:47PM (#1660178)

Looks to me like "a list of things HTML was never intended to do", except #10 of course.

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