The Animatrix(intothematrix.com) |
The Animatrix(intothematrix.com) |
1- FRAMES!
2- Table based layout
3- Preloading image via JavaScript! In the <HEAD> no less! Screw start render time, we are doing this!
4- Opening links in new pop-up windows. Ahh the days before tabs....
5- Swapping images with onmouseover, like some kind of an animal
6- Burning text into images to use a specific font
7- Browser sniffing the navigator.appName object
It would be interesting to see how today's super-fancy-html5 javascript-everywhere no-tables Websites look in 14 years with a modern browser.
All the "terrible" techniques you mention actually do the job in a surprisingly time-robust way.
Engineering versus hype.
The source code is awful and crappy, but 14 years later it still renders.
Also if you save the page and load in the browser it will still load correctly.
On the other hand, it's a working site that gets the job done, no matter how embarrassing behind the scenes.
It's amusing to see the video sizes - "Large bandwidth 640x272"
My, how times have changed...
And you can emulate so much software in your browser now, including rare stuff. In your browser - just click a link and play history. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
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http://i.imgur.com/Z1HxVhU.png
Sure, I can find the manual somewhere, but its a PITA. Today's DRM in the future will not be this easy to overcome.
The first movie still holds fairly well as a stand-alone. I feel there's a reason sci-fi creatives get reigned in by management often. Its to avoid sequalitis where movies become info dumping grounds for whatever books the director read recently. Frankly, I feel the series would have been better as a bunch of books instead of movies with a lot of 25 cent words tossed it. I feel embarrassed for the Watchowski's anytime "The Architect" is on-screen.
I don't think a modern website with CSS3/HTML5 favored will load that perfect in 10 years.
I'd be willing to bet it will, modern design principles are about separating the content from the style. Many of the techniques used were just workarounds because we didn't have the standards we have now.
In fact I'd say that this sites days (probably years) are numbered. It uses frameset for example. I would imagine that browser developers are going to start pushing for a cleaner underlying HTML/CSS/JS.
Having to support valign attributes in the HTML tags is not something you want to support forever.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Collectors-Revolutions-Revi...
(For those who don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK5qk)
the second rennaissance part 1: za sekando rune-sansu pāto 1
program: puroguramu
detective story: detekutebu sutōrī
the second rennaissance part 2: za sekando rune-sansu pāto 2
I'm not an anime fan, but The Second Renaissance 1 & 2 are excellent.
It may be the case that the techniques used were particularly robust, but it may also be the case that we've striven to keep them unbroken.
Animatrix: What if we get so smart we build machines that are so advanced that we can discriminate against them? What happens when humans create life and expect that life to remain servile?
The Matrix Reloaded: What if we fleshed out this world to show multiple societies co-existing, although not entirely peacefully? What if we throw a bunch of rehashed dialog from other science fiction films? What if we change the style to be slicker? Can we pull it off if we inject just enough substance to make people want to watch a third movie?
The Matrix Revolutions: Take the wheel, I have no idea how to end things but there should be some massive fight scenes. Ka-CHING, baby.
When the first movie was so mind blowing (which it probably isn't today) then some good special effects a great action scene or two and mediocre story is not going to look like decent action movie, but more like an atrocity.
