Comment by SoftTalker

16 days ago

XML, XMLHttpRequest, and XSLT in IE 5 was peak web dev for me. Never been more productive.

This feels like the equivalent of "whatever music you liked at 16 defines your taste"

  • I suppose. And I'm not at all saying there's nothing better today, or that it would be possible to build today's web apps using that stack. Just at that point in time and with those technologies everything was clicking.

Back in the days when launching a website was an event, and sometimes included junket trips to attend.