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Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by Accacin »

mmis1000 wrote: post #87
codethief wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shouldn't it be possible to still achieve auto-play using JavaScript? It's just a tiny bit more effort. :)

No, the browser checks the call stack of the javascript function. If the play() isn't a direct result of some kind of user interaction. It will just deny you from playing audio. So play upon you open the page is no longer possible. You at least need to wait for the user to touch somewhere on the page.

Yeah there's all sorts of nonsense you can do to do autoplay. I kind of remember at one of my old jobs, to get autoplay working on some elearning courses, when the user clicked 'Start', we'd start the audio but not play anything, and then switch out the file that was played when required which would 'autoplay' as the user had already initiated the sound. At least that was the general idea afaik.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by taylorportman »

amatecha wrote: post #88
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #45

Hey why is it that all these sites are always about how the old web was good and we should make things like the old web, but the only thing they ever make is stuff about how we should make things like the old web. I mean I would expect them to after making the first site suggesting you do it like this, to make a number of sites showing the aesthetic put to other subjects of interest. Like, Carl's Icosahedron Spot on…

So many people make websites that basically look like they are from the 90's (though without all the animated GIFs haha), and use basic features without any strictly-modern stuff. These are just a few off the top of my head: https://cblgh.org/ https://technomancy.us/list https://alexschroeder.ch/ http://100r.co/site/about_us.html https://dataswamp.org/~solene/ https://rgz.ee/ https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/ https://cod…

https://www.repairfaq.org/

I stumbled across this one recently, from their Please Read at Least Once:

"A word about the philosophy of this site: These pages are declared to be a fluff-free zone! There will be no unnecessary, superfluous, or useless graphics of any kind - including but not limited to: dancing, gyrating, or other animated icons, colored textured backgrounds that are impossible to read through, or forced downloading of bit intense pictures that may be of no interest to you. Nor, will I ever expect you to use a particular brand of Web browser to be able to effectively access these pages. There are and never will be any advertisements, cookies, or other impositions on your time and space. In the time that it may take wading through a single monstrosity of the professional Web page designers at other sites, you will be able to find out what you want to know, when you want to know it! What a concept. :-) (Note, however, that your browser needs to be configured properly to make sense of the many ASCII diagrams, schematics, and tables. See the document: Suggested Browser Settings for font and other related information.)"

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by dheera »

sirmarksalot wrote: post #12
xivzgrev wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea that one surprised me. Everything else was pretty spot on…but she needs to add a guestbook

And a hit counter

and a world population counter that looks like the hit counter

and java applets for each navigation link button that have a gradient in the background when you hover over them

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by indrora »

croon wrote: post #78
true_religion wrote: post #25

Someone once told me, “you will know what nostalgia truly is, when you see a younger generations nostalgia and think it’s still shit because you are too old for that to have been your childhood”. The jQuery era is something I’d never want to go back to. Not because jQuery was bad, but because the basic DOM api was so poor, JavaScript was much more limited and incoherent, and webpages made anything outside of text inp…

In this case I could alter that to: "You will know what nostalgia truly is, when you see a younger generations representation of nostalgia and you can point out all the anachronisms in it." Netscape 3 and websites that looked like that: 1996 Geocities: 1994-1999 (so far so good) jQuery: 2006 Blink: 2013

Blink, the tag, dates back to the 1994 or so: http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag

That's what they're referring to in the page.

In 2006, I was reading [HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible](https://www.amazon.com/HTML-XHTML-CSS-Bible-3rd/dp/076455739...), which was new-ish at the time and using Netscape as a daily browser, building sites using GeoCities. There were precursors to jQuery (cssQuery, for instance) that made it possible to do some things that Flash was too heavy for but you couldn't do in pure CSS.

And you bet your ass we were still building flashy, wild sorts of sites like that. Still do! Absolutely go check out stuff like Neocities.

Re: Make Front End Shit Again (2018)

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Post by brettermeier »

vosper wrote: post #98
onion2k wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I loaded it on mobile too.. - Horizontal scrolling because it isn't properly responsive. - it doesn't reflow when the device orientation changes - no sound (there's an audio control so I guess there's meant to be..) - the audio control sits over the flags - wildly different text sizes everywhere - so much layout shift - from an error loading the Korean version I think it's running on a platform that tracks what users…

> it doesn't reflow when the device orientation changes Does anyone design sites for landscape any more?

Who doesn't is the question? I view nearly everything on landscape mode, 'cause I don't like visiting websites with my phone.
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