"An easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device."

"Last Friday and Saturday I was fortunate enough to attend UX Bootcamp (organised by Leisa Reichelt) on the topic of Prototyping in Code. The Bootcamp aimed to provide a guidance into how to best approach prototyping using HTML, CSS and JQuery, which are pretty much the lingua franca of the web.

The Bootcamp itself was very informal and provided the ideal environment in which to get stuck in and tinker, with expert guidance provided by Peter Gasston and Anna Debenham (as well as copious amounts of tea and coffee). I would recommend attending this Bootcamp if you’re looking to learn how to begin prototyping in code.

I have taken some time to summarise my experiences along with some links – as provided on the day - and hope that this will help anyone thinking about prototyping in code to give it a go."

A collection of some handy tools for quickly prototyping in code (HTML/CSS):

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/prototyping-code

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At some point in the evening I mentioned that it was sad that Lynx was not going to be able to display many of the HTML extensions  that we were proposing,  I also pointed out that the only text style that Lynx could exploit given its environment was blinking text.    We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be.     The evening progressed pretty normally from there, with a fair amount more drinking and me meeting the girl who would later become my first wife.

  Saturday morning rolled around and I headed into the office only to find what else but, blinking text.    It was on the screen blinking in all its glory, and in the browser.    How could this be, you might ask?   It turns out that one of the engineers liked my idea so much that he left the bar sometime past midnight, returned to the office and implemented the blink tag overnight.   He was still there in the morning and quite proud of it.

The full, quite funny story, written by the inventor:

http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag#