DHTML means Dynamic HTML, not distributed html
distributed word did not existed in the dictionary back then
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#42I 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…
Archive.org has some old copies, maybe you remember this one? Still loads slowly :)
https://web.archive.org/web/20011202145112/http://linkinpark...
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#43Don't forget that tables could be used for rounded corners. Or maybe I'm an early 00s web developer with that? The trick is that we created 3×3 tables, and aside of the middle cell, it would contain s, so that the creation was a website element with rounded edges, the pinnacle of human expressiveness.
Since HTML emails were also the rage, and email clients updated much slower than browsers, this technique was used well into the 2010s, if you wanted your thing to be displayed correctly.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#44I 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…
I remember using FrontPage quite a bit too. It had some... interesting quirks when it came to outputting HTML, but it seemed fine enough for me at the time.
Which also reminds me; did anyone actually use the FrontPage Server Extensions they had for it? I remember the tool having a bunch of dynamic features like counters and guestbooks that relied on them being installed, and web hosts sometimes having these extensions listed in their features, but I never saw any sites actually using them.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#45No mention of the hacks for transparent pngs :P
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#46For all the goodies in this article, I can't forgive the author for not disabling his default round corner css for the icon image!
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#47On 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.
I don't understand. I'm interested what this means.
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#48Let's not forget frames, the original 'solution' to the problem of having to edit the navigation bar on every page.
Unfortunately, you then had to figure out what to do if someone accessed the frame page directly, since search engines could still index these parts of the page seperately. And they always felt jarring and awkward too, since the cutoff between sections was always obvious...
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#49who remembers when the hip thing to do was to sign your webpages with a horizonal rule, followed by your name and your email address with a nice blue (on grey) mailto link, all in italics.
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#50Don't forget that tables could be used for rounded corners. Or maybe I'm an early 00s web developer with that? The trick is that we created 3×3 tables, and aside of the middle cell, it would contain s, so that the creation was a website element with rounded edges, the pinnacle of human expressiveness. Since HTML emails were also the rage, and email clients updated much slower than browsers, this technique was used we…
Will never forget having to create collections of tl.gif, tr.gif, bl.gif etc. images for those 3x3 tables, not to mention the 1x1.gif the article mentioned that was needed for the left/right cell backgrounds to show since browsers at the time didn't render background images of empty cells. Good times.