jennschiffer
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10 years ago Thank you for submitting a talk to DHTMLConf. Unfortunately your talk didn't make the cut, but please let me know if you ever give it elsewhere because this actually looks interesting and informative - two characteristics that are actually banned from my event.
"washers" like "watchers" cuz u see them and they spin and they cleanse you.
a "washer" is a single html file that only links to stuff on the internet i.e, no local dependencies. it contains nothing but a title, an iframe embedding an auto-played and looped whatever, and a div absolutely positioned on top of it containing text/css_hacks/neat_jquery_listeners/entire_javascript_games/base64_encoded_media_etc.
the idea is to abandon best practices and just play. or quickly remix and comment on stuff cuz dumping some javascript on top of a youtube video is WAY easier than trying to edit such a thing with software. also this can be used as entry point to html/css/js for beginners without need to setup "dev environment" or "git" or other hassles. Make a github account, fork washer, create/edit html files online, view on github.io....etc.
This talk would be like i guess 1/3 showing off examples of washers/explaining the thing and 2/3 live coding exercise wherein we will build some of these things based on audience input and guidance. Or people can fork and clone and push and pull and build some alongside the talk. Everything is cool.
It's kinda cool cuz you like, totally cover up the embedded thing with your own art-work, so i suppose it "disrupts" the socialised-network-embedding content?
You could also theoretically exchange washers via email, thumbdrive, printing it out onto sheets of paper and then running OCR, etc. It also is perhaps more easy to conceive of a single HTML file as an "art work" than it is to understand like a node app built on micro-services or something as such.