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A couple months ago, I decided to write a very short tutorial/introduction to the program `telnet`. I ended up deciding to use the tag to make a cursor that blinks similar to how it blinks in the terminal. Hilariously, I discovered that is actually no longer implemented in Chrome. The one legitimate use! I ended up mocking it with JavaScript. EDIT: it's here if you want to see how the cursor turned out! http://blog.n…
Damn... I remember learning about yahoo.com for the first time at a Barnes & Nobles when I was actually looking for books about the WWW haha. Two other guys in the same aisle were exchanging bookmarks in person. Anybody else remember writing links down on paper?
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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.
A couple months ago, I decided to write a very short tutorial/introduction to the program `telnet`. I ended up deciding to use the tag to make a cursor that blinks similar to how it blinks in the terminal. Hilariously, I discovered that is actually no longer implemented in Chrome. The one legitimate use! I ended up mocking it with JavaScript. EDIT: it's here if you want to see how the cursor turned out! http://blog.n…
I don't see any cursor blinking in Firefox. :(
Please move this discussion to the alt.www.webmaster newsgroup.
- I'm surprised he didn't mention tables. That's the first thing that came to my mind. We didn't use CSS but tables to make a layout. And I have to admit I miss them. Yes we have grid systems like bootstrap now but still, tables were damn easy.
- What about those counters that were displaying how many visitors had came since the website creation
- Those "in construction" pages
- the tag that no one seem to use now, not even in markdown
- the , and .
- XML! And xhtml!!
- flash everywhere
- java application sometimes
- music blasting when you would arrive on a website
- fake iframes or fake images for fake traffic (width="0" height="0")
- gifs everywhere
- fake urls like .fr.fm
- no right clicks allowed
- photoshop design that would get cut in multiple squares and displayed in a table. Fireworks used to do that automatically.
- all those crappy tutorials and all the real "books" I had to buy to learn.
- websites getting upset because of hotlinking
- those "top" websites that would pop in humor websites and where you could vote for the best website.
- :(
- WYSIWYGs!! Do they still exist?
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.
I don't think you need to be a 90s developer for that. Look at the HTML of the website you're currently using.
It was never designed to add arbitrary spacing to your layout, though ;)