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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 keyhole_downs »

snorkel wrote: post #143
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 worked on a VRML retail store that had 3D products on 3D shelves and 3D customer service reps you could chat with. It was just like shopping in a real world retail store, except you're tripping on LSD flying uncontrollably upside down through a bright colored world of blocks and pyramids while wearing binoculars until you punch a hole in the sky and your browser crashes. The world just wasn't ready to shop in 3D.

That's it. I'm creating a VMRL magento implementation where even the admin panel is in 3d.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by mietek »

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.

Flexbox has mostly landed:

http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/vertic...

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by pigDisgusting »

jamesbritt wrote: post #197
Mizza wrote: post #137

Oh god. I still use   for spacing things. Like, all the time. I'm a terrible person.

For some reason I have &#

...do you mean   ???

That's the numeric entity for a non-breakng space.   is the named entity for the same character.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by skue »

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?

VRML? Bah, back then I was still hoping GopherVR would restore gopher as the primary protocol for the Internet.

(This must be what it feels like to realize you're old...)

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by nikatwork »

> 1x1.gif let you push elements all around the page effortlessly. To this day it is the only way to vertically center elements.

False, dynamic vertical centering has always been possible with tables:

  
  dynamically vertically centered
This is something CSS still can't seem to do dynamically except with table-emulation, which, you know, kind of defeats the whole fucking purpose of CSS (and isn't backwards compatible anyway). Seeing how much people decry tables as the antizalgochrist (guess what zealots: layout divs and lists also aren't semantic) I'm surprised this hasn't been fixed yet. But I don't care anymore since I moved back to app dev and my life got 100x less painful.

Here's something else CSS still can't do AFAIK:

  
  fixed"
  dynamic

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by Fomite »

rmc wrote: post #185
dalke wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Radio? Television? Film? Airplanes? Jet airplanes? Diesel locomotives? Skyscrapers? Indoor plumbing? Electricity? Municipal water and treated sewage? Cars instead of horses? The transistor? Telephone? Genome sequencing? Orbital satellites? Transoceanic cables? Fax machine? Camera? TNT? The Haber process for ammonia production? The Hall–Héroult process for aluminum production? Penicillin? The polio vaccine? Actually,…

That's all in the last ~200 years. Go back 1,200 years. What was happening then

An unknown author wrote Beowulf, an odd synthesis of pagan storytelling and christian piety.

Charlemagne. Fucking Charlemagne. Seriously, Western Europe emerging as a political entity.

The various Viking invasions, which end up having a major impact on European trade and English history (and thus by extension, American history).

The 9th century was kind of a big deal.

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