Foreword >DON’T MAKE ME THINK AGAIN
CONSIDERING HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE 2000, WHEN THE first edition of this book was printed, it’s amazing that the basic design of the Web has stayed so much the same.
In the early years the platform was volatile. It seemed like features changed every week. We had the browser wars, with Netscape squaring off against all comers and the WC3 bringing out new HTML standards every six months. But then, with the predictable victory of the Redmond wehrmacht, everything settled down.
This was a relief for Web designers, who were nearly driven out of their minds by the constant changes in code—and by the fact that we were making it up as we went along.
But relief slowly faded into frustration.
The inflexibility of ...
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