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.
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
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#22I only wonder if putting a marquee and a blink tag on your blog will cut your pagerank.
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#23Oh yeah the dreaded 1x1 pixel gif. Some genius motherfucker used one of those beauties in a large corporate site I was working on and was using it to indent header text - with javascript.
I just about went blind trying to find it and swore if I ever found that guy I would fight him. Needless to say, I'm pretty happy we've moved on to bigger and better things.
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#24This should be the companion reader to the HTML Horror page[1]
Speaking of SHTML... has anyone else always read it as "shitmail" in their head?
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#25We weren't web developers back then, we were webmasters
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#26> 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...
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#27Related Bootstrap theme: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
Is there a v3 theme? Would love to drop that into our internal system april 1.
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#28I built various quake2 clan pages in the 90ies with humongous table layouts and cgi scripts to enter clan wars...i wish i would have saved that stuff somewhere...
Zach doesn't look old enough to have been able to understand HTML in the 90ies though imo ;)
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#29Respect.
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#30Screw Frontpage, it littered your markup when you went into design mode. Hotdog Pro or Coffee Cup Editor was where it was at!
Nuh-uh, Allaire Homesite was the true editor!