[enobrev]

View source was my launchpad.

Minimizers and compilers are great, but I so miss reading through the well manicured and maintained source of a well-designed site.

I wish we could have gone with a type of compression that allowed us to keep the original source formatting for perusing production code, and ideally keep the expectation that others from around the world will be reading our code.

I imagine it had a lot to do with how quickly this thing has progressed early on. It's definitely a big part of my own origin story in this industry.

[tracker1]

When Adobe bought Macromedia, my hope was for the flash format to largely become a Zip file with SVG, JS and other assets as a package.

MS Silverlight was close, but too late as flash died and people stopped installing browser plugins.

[enobrev]

Right there with you. I was a huge fan of AS3 and build some great client projects with it. When using types, it very closely resemble Typescript in a lot of ways. I was hoping for open standards and eventual direct browser integration.

[jonathanpglick]

Same here! What a magical and empowering feeling to just see how a website works, edit it, and see the changes immediately. A year later I was paid to make my first website and 28 years later I'm still working as a full stack web developer. That one discovery in a toolbar led to a career and changed the course of my life. It's sad that that type of discoverability is largely gone.