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Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

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Re: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

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Post by alexpotato »

I will occasionally mentor folks of varying ages.

They usually end up talking to me because some project or career path they were on didn't work out how they were expecting.

I mention this b/c at some point I ask them: "Hey, do you have a blog post or website about this failed project?"

They usually say "yes, but who would want to hear about this??"

Me: "You would be ASTOUNDED at what people find interesting. Success or failure, there is always something to be learned from someone else trying to solve a problem."

Hopefully, we see more of these writeups as they are VERY inspirational (successful stories like this one or not)

Re: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

#12

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alexpotato wrote: post #11

I will occasionally mentor folks of varying ages. They usually end up talking to me because some project or career path they were on didn't work out how they were expecting. I mention this b/c at some point I ask them: "Hey, do you have a blog post or website about this failed project?" They usually say "yes, but who would want to hear about this??" Me: "You would be ASTOUNDED at what people find interesting. Success…

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Re: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

#13

Post by Nition »

dieselgate wrote: post #9
moebrowne wrote: post #4

TIL server side image maps: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl... Supported since forever.

Paul Graham's website uses image maps for the nav bar, it's the only place I can recall seeing them off the top of my head.

That one's a client-side image map.

Re: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

#15

Post by noduerme »

Whoa. I remember using client-side image maps in web design in the 90s, although once Photoshop introduced slices ( with rollover javascript hovers inlined in your html!), it mostly put an end to that.

I never heard of anyone, ever, using server-side image maps. Not with an Apache server, anyway. Maybe once something with Adobe ColdFusion.

I wonder whether this was sort of am ad-hoc copy protection scheme for these icons?

Re: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

#16

Post by noduerme »

petee wrote: post #3
justsomehnguy wrote: post #2

... of course. https://www.ibiblio.org/gio/iconbrowser/icons/icons38.html

I really love that the source-extension icons are all different, and resemble the files contents - .c indentation, .h mostly linear, .s assembly instructions, ".o" bits

Lol at the design decision that the 44x38 penis should naturally expand vertically.

Re: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

#17

Post by perilunar »

Nition wrote: post #13
dieselgate wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paul Graham's website uses image maps for the nav bar, it's the only place I can recall seeing them off the top of my head.

That one's a client-side image map.

And completely unnecessary. Should be a list of text links.

Re: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

#19

Post by superxpro12 »

noduerme wrote: post #16
petee wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really love that the source-extension icons are all different, and resemble the files contents - .c indentation, .h mostly linear, .s assembly instructions, ".o" bits

Lol at the design decision that the 44x38 penis should naturally expand vertically.

when pixels matter....

Re: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

#20

Post by omnibrain »

dieselgate wrote: post #9
moebrowne wrote: post #4

TIL server side image maps: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl... Supported since forever.

Paul Graham's website uses image maps for the nav bar, it's the only place I can recall seeing them off the top of my head.

IIRC the Apple website used to use (client side image maps) them. But I suspect that was Mai my so they could do some research where users actually click on their screen.
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