That's the first time I've heard DHTML to mean "distributed HTML" — I always knew it to mean "dynamic HTML".
Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
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Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#12I thought DHTML stood for "dynamic html", not "distributed html"?
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#13Don't worry, some of us still are using those tricks, especially nbsp and blank pixel. Why? Well, I'm doing backend/infra stuff most of my time, so I have no idea what is current or bleeding edge in frontend space these days. When someone starts screaming that page/app is looking broken and fronted devs are sleeping in different timezones, a couple of nbsp-s usually fix the problem. Happy customer, happy me :)
Btw. isn't DHTML for "Dynamic HTML"?
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#14No mention of the page-view counter? Remember those, we'd put the message "just a counter, don't click" beneath them.
And web-rings!
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#15Don't worry, some of us still are using those tricks, especially nbsp and blank pixel. Why? Well, I'm doing backend/infra stuff most of my time, so I have no idea what is current or bleeding edge in frontend space these days. When someone starts screaming that page/app is looking broken and fronted devs are sleeping in different timezones, a couple of nbsp-s usually fix the problem. Happy customer, happy me :) Btw. i…
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Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#16My memory is hazy, I was reading and thinking surely some of these ( DHTML ) are crossing into early 00s? And then I read
> In other words, which editor (FrontPage ‘98, obviously), which web server (GeoCities, you moron),
Oh yes. FrontPage 98!
> I miss the good ol’ days. "Today we have abstractions on top of abstractions on top of JavaScript", of all things. Shit doesn’t even know how to calculate math correctly. It’s amazing we ever got to where we are today, when you think about it.
Couldn't agree more. And not just on the Web, it is abstraction on top of abstraction in everything, from Tech to everything in general.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#17Missing in that list: the amusing Javascript right-click disabling.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#18Don't worry, some of us still are using those tricks, especially nbsp and blank pixel. Why? Well, I'm doing backend/infra stuff most of my time, so I have no idea what is current or bleeding edge in frontend space these days. When someone starts screaming that page/app is looking broken and fronted devs are sleeping in different timezones, a couple of nbsp-s usually fix the problem. Happy customer, happy me :) Btw. i…
>Btw. isn't DHTML for "Dynamic HTML"?
It is. I thought he was making a joke ( or a Jab ) with everything in modern dev being "distributed". May be I read him wrong.
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#19Less we forget about What an amazing time. Felt like the wild west back then.
Made me remember the International I hate Frames Club:
Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)
#20That's the first time I've heard DHTML to mean "distributed HTML" — I always knew it to mean "dynamic HTML".
Yeah, it is dynamic. But the author also mentioned putting spacer gifs in semantically appropriate containers, so I think it may have been a joke?