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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by ghinda »

90s? I was still building "DHTML menus"[1] with IE filters[2] in ~2003. Don't know if proud or ashamed.

I used to use an editor called Arachnophilia [3], which surprisingly is still in development. Way better than FrontPage.

[1] http://www.effectmaker.com/gallery/jsslidemenu/index.html

[2] http://www.effectmaker.com/gallery/jsimageswapmenu/index.htm...

[3] http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by chc »

neovive wrote: post #13

Sometimes I long for the simplicity of the 1x1 transparent gif. Combined with tables for layout, it really brought the notion of "design" to the web and helped transform the web to mass medium.

Tables + 1x1.gif don't really seem much simpler than CSS with flexible boxes.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by normloman »

david927 wrote: post #3

Oh God, I remember . And the tag. And I remember I made a Java applet that consumed so many resources that everyone who visited my page thought their machine had locked up. Good times.

What do you mean? The tag is a semantic, valid part of html5.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/hr.html

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

Needs a section on the joys of tables.

Possibly my favorite bug ever: HTML has a weird relationship with whitespace; usually it doesn't matter much, except when it does: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol7/html_no1.htm

This is one of the few bugs I've encountered that still makes me angry to this day. I spent so much time trying to figure it out.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by pvnick »

d23 wrote: post #26
pvnick wrote: post #11

> HTML For Dummies doesn't cover the tag until chapter four? Ah yes, HTML For Dummies . For me, the book that started it all. Reading that book during my elementary school Pokemon craze led me to create my first serious website from scratch, Mew's Hidden Lair [1]. Except back then it was Dummies 101: HTML [2]. And I do remember how magical it was to type in that command and see an image of Pikachu show up on my scree…

Uh, are you me? My HTML book was a different one, but I definitely had the pokemon[1] thing. All in elementary school. Who knew it would end up being my career? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070515090557/http://www.maxpag...

I very well could be, considering one of my first experiments was on maxpages also, but I can't remember the name unfortunately (pikachu something?). I remember how ultra-competitive it was to get people to upvote your website so it would get to the maxpages front page and that at one point all the front page links were pokemon websites.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by jayvanguard »

david927 wrote: post #3

Oh God, I remember . And the tag. And I remember I made a Java applet that consumed so many resources that everyone who visited my page thought their machine had locked up. Good times.

I used to love the tag. Has anyone invented a better way to break up sections?
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