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A proposal for immersive video on the web

Pretty cool, with a lot of potential for educational content, explainers and tutorials. Imagine a media player that is not constrained to a small rectangle on the screen, but could instead adapt to its content: The problem with using video to inform is that, well, videos, by nature of the medium, are stuck in time. […]

Is it easier to publish hypertexts in 2020 than it was in the year 2000?

No. Paul Ford, talking with his 2000-self: ’00: You keep saying that. How does HTML work now? ’20: It’s pretty simple, you define app logic as unidirectional dataflow, then fake up pseudo-HTML components that mirror state, and a controller mounts fake-page deltas onto the browser surface. ’00: How do you change the title tag? ’20: […]