On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Thank you for the explanation Stefan, but I do know how to use a browser. > > What I didn't know is how the HTML works. I thought it was actually doing > some computation, but it seems like its just jumping to pre-rendered tic- > tac-toe grids.
That's all HTML is capable of. Without assistance, HTML is nothing more than layouts. > > I don't know why it places *two* pairs of crosses and naughts instead of > one. Maybe the page is broken. I think it is, as part of being on the Internet Archive. To get a working version of the game, you may need to download it locally and clean it up a bit. > But anyway... it doesn't seem to me that the page is doing any > computation using HTML. It's more like a book listing a table of primes. > The book hasn't done any computation, and we wouldn't say that this is > proof that pieces of paper are capable of programming. Correct; however, with something this small, the difference isn't significant. What, ultimately, is the difference between a live-rendered image and a static photo? For the ability to brag that a fully-playable game requires nothing more than HTML, I think this minor cheat is worth it. It's gimmicky and cute, rather than being any sort of "hey look, HTML is a programming language" thing. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
