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The IE6 Demoscene

Name: Cudder !MhMRSATORI!fR8duoqGZdD/iE5 2013-06-07 8:38

There's an active community of people in the demoscene writing code for long-"obsolete" platforms like C64, Atari, NES, etc. These platforms are slow, quirky, and relatively limited, yet they can do all these amazing things with them.

Seeing all these HTML5 "new features" demos, the thought occurred to me: what can we do with a more limited browser? Not something really limited like Lynx, but something still considered obsolete yet maybe more powerful than most people would think. How about IE6? It has JavaScript so you can write programs in it, lots of undocumented/buggy behaviour, and relatively slow, so could be compared to a C64 in some ways. (Lynx would be like a 4004.) What sort of things can you do with it? Should there be a demoscene category "Platform: IE6"?

Discuss.

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-10 7:34

>>57
Guess what, the paying customers and the businesses who attract these customers are the people who drive this "innovation". Welcome to life in 2001.

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-10 20:38

>>65
I don't want to see your time-wasting page transitions, fancy CSS effects or other brainless tripe. I don't care if your divs are a few pixels off in browser X or Y or Z, or that the colours aren't quite the same.
While the Internet was certainly government funded, you can't tell me the demand for multimedia control and multimedia presentation in HTML5 was because the government decided the public would like such features. HTML5 was requested by developers and designers who work in commercial businesses.

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