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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by saraid216 » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:46 PM UTC

eclipxe wrote: post #47

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #35

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.

Tables + frames!

Who needs position: fixed when you have frames!?

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by triangleman » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:48 PM UTC

In order to put a border around something you'd need to nest a table inside another table with a background color.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by knieveltech » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:48 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #71

I miss guestbooks. No context, no social media BS, just "say hi or something." I think the first server-side script I ever wrote was possibly the worst guestbook ever in perl on Tripod. And webrings. Oh god webrings ...

All webrings were missing was a HUD. A top-down topographical map of the ring and an indicator of your position in it at any given point would have been awesome.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by swalsh » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:48 PM UTC

I learned web design by saving the html for MSN.com back when it looked like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000229044717/http://www.msn.co...?

A lot of trial and error... but good times.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by jbeja » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:50 PM UTC

I am not a 90s web developer, but i remember this, since it was one of the things that my university teachers taught me on my web development class in 2010, along with tables, inline styles and bad php code, and don't get me started with the VB6/Net and MSAccess classes. The Horror :(.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by jvuonger » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:51 PM UTC

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…

I'm surprised Tripod.com is still hosting my Pokemon site, Pikachu's Place [1]! I used take screenshots of episodes by taking pictures of the TV using a digital camera and uploaded them to the site. Hilarious.

Can't forget about the Paint Shop Pro animated graphics!

[1] http://pika299.tripod.com/

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by ks » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:53 PM UTC

grayrest wrote: post #58

Stay tuned for episode 2 including: * Nested table layouts, adventures in collapsed borders * window.status = "awesome" * HRs: "I can make a 3d hole in my page" * document.all being the best DHTML api.

* Navigation menu using GIF buttons. Often animated, including the rotating "@" symbol for sending mails

* Creating gradient text using one for each letter. http://jsfiddle.net/A2VCE/

* Putting text in and tags to support old browsers

* Add "lowsrc" attribute to because the larger image would take too long to load.

* List detailed hardware specs for the web server on the "about us" page.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by saraid216 » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:55 PM UTC

ksmsjm wrote: post #103

Counters, undetconstruction images I remember we had a clientside script that changed ilayers to those weird div tags so you could drag stuff around in both broswers. But rarely saw anyone use blink tag at all

Blink tags were annoying even then.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by rmc » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:55 PM UTC

return0 wrote: post #100

molecule wrote: post #10

Related Bootstrap theme: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

Kidding aside, Comic Sans MS is still one of the most easily readable fonts out there.

Apparently the that lower case a in Comic Sans matches how most people write, makes it an easier font for people with poor literacy

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by jack-r-abbit » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 10:57 PM UTC

cheeaun wrote: post #166

aethr wrote: post #5

I thought DHTML was "dynamic" HTML, as made popular by the Dynamic Duo: http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/

... and Dynamic Drive I guess? http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ :)

OMG... Dynamic Drive was pretty much my go to JavaScript hack site. Oh the frustration when taking two little snippets and finding out they were not compatible with each other. And then the elation when you managed to rewrite them to make them work together.

EDIT: Holy crap... I still have the bookmark for DD (and JavaScript Kit at the old http://www.wsabstract.com domain) in an "Imported" bookmarks folder in Chrome. I'm not sure how many browsers those have been through over the years.