DHTML means Dynamic HTML, not distributed html
Fairly sure that was a joke given the rest of the paragraph.
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#62who 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.
Yes, I absolutely did that, back when personal websites usually had URLs like http://www.subdomain.domainname.net/~username
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#63DHTML means Dynamic HTML, not distributed html
It was a joke.
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#64I still miss browser bouncers:
"Sorry kiddo. No Netscape in here. Boss created this stuff for IE only."
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#65> 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…
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#66Youngsters need to know how much markup and images we needed for fluid containers with rounded corners... Also did I tell you about CSS-only triangles ?
You'll know the webmaster know their shit when their page has rounded corners everywhere.
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#67Don't forget image slicing and image maps! https://www.creativebloq.com/adobe/image-slicing-photoshop-6... (2014)
Talking of slicing: https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/raggedfloat/demo.html
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#68Obviously the technology was a lot worse.
But I kind of miss the internet of back then when websites would still be made and run by ordinary people. As ugly as those websites were, it felt a lot more genuine and democratic than today.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#69Ah, 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.
That's because Tables actually map to how digital imaging works: dividing an area into little squares and deciding what to show in it. The screen does it, the driver does it, the window manager does it, the desktop primitives do it... and then you get to the browser screen, and suddenly you have to figure out a byzantine system of self-mutating shapes.
I was an early CSS supporter but man, didn't the boffins screw up that one.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
#70Ah, 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!
was the Robitussin of the web.