Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#2On the other side we were told that those colorful gradients that will be the fad of the 20s are cheap and we were scolded by professional designers for using them.
Not that we had CSS gradients, we were using gifs or jpegs.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#3> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML”
Is this a joke I don't understand?
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#4> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML” Is this a joke I don't understand?
For me personally this is a nice bit of absurdist humour that so few people cherish lately.
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#5> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML” Is this a joke I don't understand?
Yeah, I think there's some deliberate mistakes in there for understated comic effect - e.g. "To this day [1x1.gif] is the only way to vertically center elements."
The joke (at least the DHTML one) is probably that only people who were developers then will know that's wrong. (Or I suppose this could have been written by someone who wasn't around at that time and this is a bit of faux nostalgia!)
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#6Honestly, in some ways, borderless tables for layout was nicer than grids and flex boxes.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#7> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML” Is this a joke I don't understand?
It's just poking fun at the overall dumb acronym.
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#8The 1x1.gif, I haven’t thought about that for a long long time!
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#9Don't forget image slicing and image maps!
https://www.creativebloq.com/adobe/image-slicing-photoshop-6...
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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#10> To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements.
Not true anymore (edit: didn't see the 2014) but the productivity cost of not being able to just "vertical-align: middle;" inside divs for the last 30 years must be billions of dollars.
Also does anyone remember the fade of the overline style on :hover links? It must has been around the IE4 or IE6 era.
Tables were also used to make divs and buttons with rounded corners, but that was true into the 2000s as well. The agony of designing and splicing them in Photoshop and putting them in table cells...