Lots of things don't work without JavaScript.

I think it looks great. No scrolling!

am i missing something here?

i dont see any reason to make a simple 3 container page javascript dependent.

And even if you make a site that requires js to be functional you at least put a fallback in there.

Let me elaborate. All I see is a blank page. Making a basic page that works without JavaScript is not that hard.

Those things are inherently broken, especially when they're an extremely basic sign-up form.

My head hurts.

If you don't look at the pointers, this is the most difficult Where's Waldo ever.

Makes me think of the first reply to this StackOverflow question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...

But, unlike XHTML, it is possible to validate an e-mail address with a regular expression (assuming comments have been removed).

It's also, unlike XHTML, not particularly easy to do it with a parser: most of the complexity of the regex is due to the litany of edge cases for what constitutes a valid email address, not due to it being a regex.

Heh. It took me a lot longer than Steve here to set up App Engine on my current computer, and setting up XAMPP on my last computer to run a local server took a fraction of the effort. I don't use an IDE, either; I use Notepad++ for ALL my coding, so that's another trouble I don't have in any case.

GAE may allow you to set up a server visible to the entire Internet, but I think my fonder memories will be reserved for other tools.

Exactly why and how does this let me do stuff I couldn't do before with JS? The example used here looks like something that could be done just as easily with OOP at first glance...

The examples show how new syntax can be added to JS which is something you won't be able to do in OOP.

For more examples of where macros can be useful see this previous HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3124920