Re:Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3
by wladimir on Friday February 18, 2011 @01:52AM
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So we've gone full circle now.
Phase 1: Everyone has a static page, without JS, but with animated gifs, counters and guestbook scripts linked from other sites.
Phase 2: PHP becomes popular, static sites are suddenly 'lame', as everyone wants to show off their server-side skills. For some sites, even the CSS and JS, and images are generated dynamically on the fly.
Phase 3: Improvements to JavaScript make it possible to replace server side HTML, image and style generation with the same on the client side.
Phase 4 == 1: You don't need Javascript, simply re-generate the HTML and re-publish it on the site using a script. Sites integrate externals widgets, but somewhat less clunky than before by using JS tricks instead of iFrames.
Re:Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3
by pkulak on Friday February 18, 2011 @02:10PM
(#2236762)
Hell we've even got sites like Gawker re-implementing frames in JS so they can get all that '90s annoying-ness while still telling themselves they're on the cutting edge.
Phase 1: Everyone has a static page, without JS, but with animated gifs, counters and guestbook scripts linked from other sites.
Phase 2: PHP becomes popular, static sites are suddenly 'lame', as everyone wants to show off their server-side skills. For some sites, even the CSS and JS, and images are generated dynamically on the fly.
Phase 3: Improvements to JavaScript make it possible to replace server side HTML, image and style generation with the same on the client side.
Phase 4 == 1: You don't need Javascript, simply re-generate the HTML and re-publish it on the site using a script. Sites integrate externals widgets, but somewhat less clunky than before by using JS tricks instead of iFrames.
We're back to the 90's :)