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Farewell to HTML5Rocks

So long HTML5Rocks, it's been nice knowing you.

Jun 29, 2022
Paul Kinlan
Paul Kinlan
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After 10 years and 100 million pageviews this commit completes our
transition of content of HTML5Rocks to homes that are maintained on
developer.chrome.com and web.dev. It feels like a bit of an end of an
era.

I was around for the founding of HTML5Rocks. We had so much fun
building the serving infrastructure (several times) and creating a
lot of the content--from walkthroughs of WebSQL and AppCache, the
first introductions to new APIs such as IndexedDB, and explainers for
How the Browser works.

Our most popular article was about CORS (Cross Origin Resource
Sharing), followed by dragging and dropping files, and then one of
the first introductions to getUserMedia and WebRTC. Contrasting the
popularity of core "simple" tasks against the new and shiny
capabilities is something that impacts developers today just as much
as it did in 2012.

One thing I will miss the most is the community that developed around
the site. HTML5Rocks was the first public site I helped to create
that managed to build a huge community around it. It was one of the
quickest ways to get feedback from developers that could be fed right
back into the browser engineering teams. However, over the last
couple of years as our priorities changed, "HTML5" became "HTML", and
we slowly stopped creating new content and engaging with the
community on the site. As the founders of our team moved on, I was
left as the only person who could deploy the site and so I felt it
was time to ensure that we had a permanent home that has a dedicated
team supporting both the content and the infrastructure.

With this transition it was important for us to maintain the content
(it's still valuable), but more importantly maintain the in-bound
links. People found our content interesting enough for them to share
with their audiences, so I'd like to maintain that trust given to us
and ensure that all the links will still resolve to the content. If
you do see an issue with any of the content, reach out to us and file
an issue on web.dev or developer.chrome.com issue trackers.

Thank you to everyone who wrote content for the site, for the people
who translated the content so that it could be read everywhere, and
all the readers and commenters who made the site the place to go and
learn about what's new on the web.

I'm off to register HTMLLivingStandardRocks.com...

[?] Paul
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