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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

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Ah, the 90s - a time when was the answer to every web layout question. Miss aligning your text? . Need a fancy menu? . Creating a full website? Nested s! Who needed CSS when you had rows and cells to hack your way through design? Good old days of -ing everything!

I still love tables. They are so awesome for dynamic design. The support column and row spans, alignment, weights.

And CSS is still way more complicated than good old tables.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

#32

Ah, the 90s - a time when was the answer to every web layout question. Miss aligning your text? . Need a fancy menu? . Creating a full website? Nested s! Who needed CSS when you had rows and cells to hack your way through design? Good old days of -ing everything!

And now we get some more semantically correct way to do it.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

#33

I still use   when writing headlines, to avoid breaking apart 2 key words that should stay together. I also use the non-breaking hyphen for this, which is a different char than the regular hyphen or the em/en dash. > 1x1.gif let you push elements all around the page effortlessly. To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements If you can think of another way to vertically center, I’d like to hear it…

Flex box row inside a flex box column, justify: and align: center.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

#34
I miss MS FrontPage!

I remember how shocked my friends looked whenever they came by and saw it open on my screen. They never understood why I spend hours on that thing instead of just playing games.

The first time I thought about learning to code was when I visited Linkin Park's website. Sure, it took 10 long minutes to load but it was a masterpiece of its own.

I'd just open the website and stare at it. And one day I just decided that I'm going to make one myself. I'm trying still...

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

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Ah yes, transparent images to get equal-width spacing on terrible browser engines like Opera and IE. Tracking pixels. Mixed HTTP and HTTPS content warnings. Java Applets. Perl scripts. cgi-bin. Uploading files one-by-one through a web portal (not even FTP). Building entire sites out of a mosaic of images. Having multiple versions of your site for 800x600, 1024x768, etc.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

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> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML” Is this a joke I don't understand?

It's almost certainly a joke but not obvious exactly what the joke is. What it actually stood for (in case you don't know) is "Dynamic HTML." My guess is that he's drawing a parallel with "distributed" as a modern day buzzword that's used in so many ways it's almost meaningless, but attracts attention and money almost automatically (other modern-day buzzwords like this include "blockchain," although that's fading, an…

At the time it was more about being able to load more content without having to do a whole-page fetch.

This was around when XHR first debuted and devs could stop relying on hacks or Flash to do it.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

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If you yearn for “the good old days,” consider that we’re living through “the good old days” of AI. In 30 years a blog post like this will poke fun at prompts, chatGPT, chat-with-docs apps, dealing with hallucinations, and what else?
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