The mission of DCKIM dotcom is simple: Write the best HTML drafting program that anyone ever saw. It needs to be the best. It can and must exceed all expectations. The focus, from the very beginning, has been to keep the program completely offline. That means never accessing anything. It's just you and the browser, and nothing in between.

When I started writing this program, I wasn't writing it for you, I was only writing it for myself. I needed to be able to draw an amazing and high quality website, and fast. Looking online, all that I found were programs based entirely around template selection. In those type of systems, there isn't really a way to draw HTML parts of your own.

Straight-away I saw the need to simply begin writing a computer program that would help me to gain superiority and triumph over HTML. The problem I was having with HTML was that, when I was writing it textually, that it was a lot of work. The most difficult challenge that I was facing was positioning the parts.

The Hardest Thing Is Scrapping It

After a couple months of working at the same computer program, and being very excited about it's success, I approached a point where I knew that the code had become unworkable. I had found my way through that path and explored all of the different methods that could be found along that path. I could see an object mode beginning to shape up, and I felt tempted to just keep writing the same program. That's when I knew, for the sake of the project, I needed to scrap the whole thing and start again from scratch.

I had already learned all of the lessons that the original HW program was able to teach me. It worked great but, the code was not of the highest quality. It was missing something, there was something that just wasn't there.

OBJECT MODE

The original HW program and it's pragmatic paradigms were deeply engrained, and hard to abandon. So, the program that you are seeing today is still founded on those basic principles.

A design grid is used for everything, top to bottom. The basis for the selection scheme is not bipartite, which is common, but is the lesser known Tripartite system, a three colour system. With the tripartite system you get six flips of the colour scheme instead of just two. That's a huge advantage, and I don't know where this program would be without it. It lends itself naturally to the idea of foreground middleground and background that is a basic standard for any artwork.

The DCKIM mission is simple

The program must be provided for absolutely no money, have no advertisement inside, and work completely offline in any web-browser. These are just simple demands. And I am my own worst boss.

- Assalamu Alaikum, DCKIM mystery programmer

Wednesday, June 11th, 2025