The Web is the Next Platform (1995)

Re:The Web is the Next Platform (1995) by tiborsaas on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @06:10PM (#22754039)

Not really. I worked on many sites to support IE6. Actually I cheered when I only had to support IE6 and above.

What killed IE for me is the developer experience. To get the value of a variable you had to:

     alert(show_me_what_you_got) // [Object object]

Then some genius created a JS widget with an absolute positioned floating console that allowed me to inspect variables on a basic level.

Then came Firefox and it was a game changer for development. It was no wonder every web developer rooted for IE to finally die.

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Re:The Web is the Next Platform (1995) by pjmlp on Thursday April 02, 2020 @01:45AM (#22756535)

Knowledgeable developers would install Microsoft' JScript debugging tools, I guess it is a bit too late to learn about them.

No need for genius or waiting for Netscape to come up with something.

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Re:The Web is the Next Platform (1995) by folkhack on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:06PM (#22760493)

If you work with Microsoft Office add-on dev you can still feel the echos of this with the Microsoft Script Editor.

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Re:The Web is the Next Platform (1995) by tiborsaas on Thursday April 02, 2020 @08:15AM (#22758159)

Thanks for this, I'll send this back in time to my high-schooler self :) (along with some other handy tips)

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