Respect.
ROFL that's hilarious in so many ways. The 1 pixel gif was used as a cached item... by inlining it as a data image he's making that effort useless. I love this article.
It was more about alignment.
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
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#212Has anybody written a shim for that uses CSS animations?
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#213Image maps, Server-side includes (I still have a current site using these), cgi scripts, "Creating Killer Websites" by David Siegel who must have been the first self-proclaimed self-important Web guru who gave us the spacer gif. And um, yeah, the D in DHTML is for Dynamic, Mr. Frontpage Webmaster (so much better than Homesite!). Tiled backgrounds, beveled buttons, , even used and , and definition lists of course. Has it been that long really? Seems like yesterday.
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#214No mention of "Made with Notepad" badge images? ...or the thousands of other badges that I, for whatever reason had to shoehorn into my website?
Well, now we have those social sharing buttons. Just as messy and pointless
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are correct, it was, as my dog-eared copy of O'Reilly's doorstop on the subject ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565924949.do ) can attest. Hey, there's another one for the list: only '90s web developers know what it's like to have to learn new technologies by going to Barnes & Noble and buying a book about them.
Oh god, I still have my Javascript 1.2 book. =/ Part of me wants to build a bonfire and toss it on. The other part of me goes, "But that's a book . A completely useless except as a curiosity for historians book, but still a book ."
It's not too far off. I've got the same one, and it's the only JavaScript book I've got!
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#217We 're kind of lucky to have lived through the internet/web's adolescence. I mean, how often can one live through the birth of a groundbreaking technology? For me, it was Jon Udell's column on Byte that first got me interested in web technologies. Great guy. P.S. Am I the only one who wrote all my html in lowercase? (and always used ' instead of " (one keypress less)?)
A part of me wished I was in my late 20's in that era, not a 12 year old kid. Oh the riches to be had.
Yeah, no riches for me. It's easy to look back in retrospect and said "oh I had this opportunity" but at the time, it wasn't obvious.
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#218Related Bootstrap theme: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
Is it just me or is that background 3d? That's tripping me out.
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#219We 're kind of lucky to have lived through the internet/web's adolescence. I mean, how often can one live through the birth of a groundbreaking technology? For me, it was Jon Udell's column on Byte that first got me interested in web technologies. Great guy. P.S. Am I the only one who wrote all my html in lowercase? (and always used ' instead of " (one keypress less)?)
> I mean, how often can one live through the birth of a groundbreaking technology?
How often can one not? And, since technology advanced to the point where information about such a groundbreaking technology gets to the whole globe in relatively short time, its been pretty hard not to be aware of it.
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#220Oh 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.
Heh. I wrote a JavaScript DHTML demo in 1999 that I locked to a browser window sized 640x480px because otherwise it made PCs grind to a halt and crashed Macs. Nowadays it runs on my phone just fine... Link for anyone who's interested: http://www.gilesthomas.com/old-javascript/stars/index.html
Just tell everyone you're using WebGL and submit it here.