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Comment by wwweston

3 days ago

Be sure to correct all the people who are using the term “cool” for things other than relative temperature, as it was originally defined.

See also the dictionary fallacy, and again descriptivism vs prescriptivism.

Additionally, even leaving alone the div/dynamic language issue, there really isn’t a point in usage history where DHTML came without JS — believe me, I was doing it when the term first came into usage. JS was required for nearly all dynamic behavior.

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1659447091  2 days ago

> See also the dictionary fallacy, and again descriptivism vs prescriptivism

DHTML is an acronym that expands to: Dynamic HyperText Markup Language.

There is no dictionary fallacy or descriptivism vs prescriptivism or defined meaning. It was simply an industry standard way to shorten all those words.

Changing one of the letters to stand for something else reassigns the pointer to something else entirely, or is the making of a joke, which I think the above may have been.

  • jama211  1 day ago

    Wow, you should try out for the olympics with those acrobatics. I didn’t realise it was possible to miss every point so hard.