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> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML”, was the final feather in our cap of web development tools. Dynamic* Anyway, there's also tables for layout, including Photoshop and Dreamweaver having a slice tool to generate those tables. Also most of the coolest early adopter sites using CSS were anime artist portfolios, because it allowed them to do much cooler stuff. Webpage view counters. Midi files playing when you…
I don't remember if this was a common technique, but before XmlHttpRequest (came in 2000, i think) we used to do "Ajax" by loading data into an invisible iframe and reading the contents. Worked well iirc.
Oh right I forgot about that. Also back then (up until ~2005) browsers were hilariously insecure. For example I was in a forum of a local youth club and you could have signatures that were displayed under every post so I added some edgy image linked from my own webserver. Some day I accidentally put the whole folder on a password protection which prompted the "username password" login window on every page my signatur…
> DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML”, was the final feather in our cap of web development tools. Dynamic* Anyway, there's also tables for layout, including Photoshop and Dreamweaver having a slice tool to generate those tables. Also most of the coolest early adopter sites using CSS were anime artist portfolios, because it allowed them to do much cooler stuff. Webpage view counters. Midi files playing when you…
Why did guestbooks die?
Also, JSRS was one of the first hackidy ways to do 'ajax'.
Negative margins to fix layouts..
> 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!)
Yes, the web was a real step back. Sensory overload became one-dimensional and we were deprived from the ability to annoy our visitors not only horizontally but also vertically. We are still recovering from that.
[1] Hopped along what looked like a sine wave to the unwitting eye, but really came from a tiny table of pre-calculated values of a quarter sine, carefully reduced to the bare minimum number of entries that still looked sinusy enough.
Let'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...
That and also tables (with invisible borders), which was the content positioning before CSS tool of choice and went way into the 2010s.
Unfortunately, it is still used for html formatted emails