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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by panzi »

powrtoch wrote: post #21

Can anyone explain the bit about 1x1.gif being the only way, to this day, to vertically center elements? AFAIK there's still no way to vertically center a dynamic height element without javascript, so if invisible gifs can do it I'd at least like to know how.

This even works in IE8: http://jsfiddle.net/QVQLN/

jsfiddle itself doesn't work in IE8, so hier is a direct link: http://fiddle.jshell.net/QVQLN/show/

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Post by 10feet »

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.

If your java applet just said hello it consumed so many resources. It took minute just to load java, what a stupid idea that was.

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Post by tracker1 »

themodelplumber wrote: post #116
mpclark wrote: post #25

We weren't web developers back then, we were web masters

Funny. The term is still in use; I think it's usually meant to imply a deeper level of ownership, a la sysadmin. A few times a year people contact me saying they need a webmaster, and the way they describe their needs, I wouldn't say that "developer" really covers it.

To me, the term dev-ops is probably more accurate these days.

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Post by dalke »

sanswork wrote: post #111

Remember when VRML was going to be the next big thing and we were all going to be moving through 3d websites?

I remember when SGI came by to demo their VRML viewer with an animated character. During Q&A I commented that the web made it easy to learn by 'view source'; "how do you do that with VRML?" I remember being dissatisfied with their response. (I think you were supposed to use one of their authoring tools for it?)

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by mrspandex »

aspensmonster wrote: post #73
d23 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Page---Kids/dp/084317459... 1998. Hell, I think I still have this book laying around somewhere. I got it at a book fair in elementary school and from then on out I was always making one stupid webpage or another. Until I discovered Java of course.

I still lend this book out to friends who want to learn HTML.
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