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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.
> * window.status = "awesome" The discovery of window.status was a landmark of human achievement. Scrolling text in the browser's own UI? Sign me up, I'll take 40.
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.
> 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 remember my dad saying that if I got a domain name and it got popular, I could rake in tonnes from sponsorship. I was amazed. I asked him if he could buy me a domain. He said no :( In fairness, I was only 10...
What's quite funny is that I actually work for a company that has essentially done the above and actually provides a big portion of revenue. The pages are not much better quality either (they need more tag imo).
2/ You could style the scrollbars on IE4 !
3/ About link styling : for some time underline+overline was all the rage on :hover. I don't think it will make a come back, who knows.
Exciting times
In the mid-90s I discovered HTML and cleaned up the web page for the company I was contracting for. It was supposed to be a 5-hour a week side project that became 20 hours a week often. I discovered David Seigel's web site, where I learned all the magic of the single-pixel gif and table layouts. I bought his book "Creating Killer Websites," and followed his web journal, which was a new concept at the time. I took a d…
It seems so goofy now, but his advice was actually an improvement over the gray-background, fat-bordered, use-every-font stuff that passed for Web design at the time.
Oh god. I still use for spacing things. Like, all the time. I'm a terrible person.
No mention of "Made with Notepad" badge images? ...or the thousands of other badges that I, for whatever reason had to shoehorn into my website?
Related Bootstrap theme: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
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Tables + 1x1.gif don't really seem much simpler than CSS with flexible boxes.
complete browser compatibility (yes nearly 100%) and fast to layout without wierd box model behavior which was fixed only relatively recently.