June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h
English
Take a moment to consider the unlikely origins of the web as an app platform. When Tim Berners-Lee wrote the original web server and browser in 1990, web pages were written in a single language: HTML. HTML could only convey raw content; the way that content was presented was left to the browser. Gradually, a handful of stylistic choices were added to the markup language. Authors started to embellish their sites with (often garish) color and font choices, not to mention the infamous <marquee> tag. With the introduction of CSS in 1996, the aesthetic choices available to web designers exploded.
Around the same time that CSS was making headway, JavaScript began to bring interactivity to the ...
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