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by anarcticpuffin 5635 days ago
There looks like a lot of content on there, but I'd go crazy before gleaning any of it with that pointer. Please make it stop! Was this a joke post, an example of poor design, or a serious link to some beefy content?
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It's a joke page, just < http://www.whatwg.org/html > with ugly CSS/JS. The point's to make fun of marketing weasels trying to confuse HTML 5, CSS 3, JS 1.8.5 , and other related technologies.
The contents are just links to parts of the "HTML5" specification. The page itself is meant as a joke.

From the source:

    //please don't try to understand this super advanced DHTML script.
    //it's way ahead of its time.
It seems like satire comparing the hype which surrounded javascript in the late geocities/early myspace era with the hype that now surrounds HTML5.