Hi all! Founder here. The reason we are building this is simple – web design is far from solved, still. I know there are tools out there that help. Starting from very rigid template-based tools ending with fully customizable frameworks. Our goal is to bring designers and developers closer together. At the end we are speaking the same language of HTML/CSS. Froont aims to communicate the ideas better. Thanks!
That would be wonderful. I have several friends who really struggle with CSS right now, and this kind of illustration is super useful. Floats are such a fundamental and confusing CSS concept. Any illustration of it would be useful.
True. I also left out Frames. Web 2.0 for me was too much about aesthetics, but AJAX is very close to JS. Both deserve a spot in an extended version of the history though!
"Web 2.0" was a lot less about aesthetics than "flat design" (the emergence of custom font solutions that didn't require Flash or graphics was the real revolution; the "flat"-ness itself is just a fad, and for that matter HN has been pretty flat looking for a while now!)
The browser wars deserved a mention, probably in the Javascript section too, and the death of the "web safe" palette.
Embedded video everywhere is probably the biggest boon to designers in recent years, even if it's been theoretically achievable since Flash came onto the scene. Or earlier if you count animated gifs
It was a freedom in programming too, JavaScript was/is still buggy from browser to browser and with Flash using ActionScript you could code once and run confidently in any browser with the plugin.
