events/2026-04-07-front-end-study-hall

Front End Study Hall #050 was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2026-04-07.

• Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2026-04-07-front-end-study-hall

Front End Study Hall #050

Apr 7, 2026

Participants

• Joe Crawford
• capjamesg
• Thomas Vander Wal https://vanderwal.net
• Eric M
• Matthew R
• Ricardo
• Emily N
• Tantek Çelik

Notes

• https://cybercultural.com/p/1997-the-year-of-dhtml/ - an excellent istory of the idea of DHTML -

• Shadow dom - starts over
• @ scope is a true isolation
• unset: all

• host, slot

• progressive enhancement

• Secrets of the CSS Jedi?

• Archive of Joe's home pages: https://artlung.com/splashes/

• History?
• What does it mean that Geocities went away for personal home pages?
• What does it mean that the web space that came with your ISP or from AOL went away?
• Homepage.mac.com 1999
• https://artlung.com/elsewhere/
• Why tildes? Unix webservers?

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/42891/why-is-there-are-tilde-sign-in-most-university-urls

• In looking at old pages:
• Western Civilization Style Master - Allsopp
• Adobe PageMill
• CoffeeCup
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoffeeCup_HTML_Editor
• HomeSite - great software - Allaire
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_HomeSite - this became the foundation for ColdFusion Studio

• iframe: javascript in feeds
• other people's html freaks out James (who make

• youtube embed snippets
• spotify embed
• reference s

• sidebars!
• https://help.opera.com/en/extensions/sidebar-action-manual/
• sidebar in IE
• Safari has a sidebar

• People making personal websites has grown - Here comes everybody
  • Social platforms took that energy?
  • But folks use Reddit, have local
  • Cycles of personal and public - less on the web, now to private spaces - to avoid scrutiny
  • Safety on the web, uploads

• • broken_image.GIF
  • art project with sonnet
    • Not just sonnet, a different project put all the workds of Shakespeare in a small image - https://www.vice.com/en/article/tiny-picture-twitter-complete-works-of-shakespeare-steganography/
  • quines in html?
  • https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quine a program whose output is the code that
  • hidden message -
  • steganography

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/break-inside

https://home.6t.lt/

• bevels on the current element page in the nav https://vanderwal.net/links.php - the bottom of the current element has a different border width and different color

• Future topics?
• Tao of the Web - by Alsopp
• CSS Samurai book
• CSS Jedi

some history about DHTML / Dynamic HTML

Group Photo 2026-04-07