No mention of the html5 shiv we all installed before any CSS so all browser quirks were removed?
HTML hacks that shaped the Internet
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Re: HTML hacks that shaped the Internet
#52Remember when we rounded corners using images placed at each corner. It was a nightmare.
Another technique: 3 1-pixel s per corner. For example, look at the buttons here https://web.archive.org/web/20070624110053/http://vkontakte....
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#53It's funny how we came around to JSSS, and it's now everywhere: from CSS-in-JS to web components coding their CSS in strings inside Javascript
A common case of W3 actively choosing the worse option
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did they ever invest much into it? As far as I understand they got the core components from Spyglass Inc. and avoided paying licensing fees by giving it away for free.
Sounds like they avoided paying licensing fees by not paying licensing fees and then acting surprised when called on it. https://archive.ph/20120919002551/http://www.windowsitpro.co...
Wasn't it that the Spyglass deal was MS paying a percentage of revenue, and MS releasing IE for free, so that Spyglass got to keep a percentage of $0?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately today w3c and tc39 (Javascript) are completely dominated by Google who ram through a lot of standards while barely paying lip service to the process. Unfortunately a lot of players who rely on browser functionality are completely silent in the standards committees (like the TV vendors who all run their apps in a webkit or chromium version), so it's barely a three-way tug-o-war between Google, Apple and…
I’m still bullish on the possibility of Microsoft edge shaking up this dynamic a little, but maybe I’m naïve.
They did start https://open-ui.org which really deserves special recognition.
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#56Is responsive design really a hack? Media queries are awesome Putting that stuff in css vs having conditional logic in the javascript is a huge win, esp when you want to ssr
I had the same thought. Media queries to support different... media seems like the exact proper use case.
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#57Why exactly was Internet Explorer so bad? In hindsight, it looks like a huge missed opportunity for Microsoft.
Re: HTML hacks that shaped the Internet
#58Why exactly was Internet Explorer so bad? In hindsight, it looks like a huge missed opportunity for Microsoft.
They won. The world was running on desktop computers, and those desktop computers were running Windows, and Windows was running IE.
So they rested on laurels.
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#59Walk down memory lane. I've used almost all of these over the nearly 27 years I've been doing web development. I kind of feel like the old float/clear and 1px x 1px transparent gif hacks should have been in there as well.
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#60Using tables for layout is pretty understandable. But when tables went out of fashion it was all about using floats for layout for a few years. That was wild, I am surprised it was left out from that list. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou... "Originally for floating images inside blocks of text, the float property became one of the most commonly used tools for creating multiple column layo…
Floating divs killed the Dreamweaver. CSS came and broke your heart. Oh, a, a, a, oh.