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The author forgot making rounded corners using images! I kind of miss the creativity of old web development, especially before responsive web design. There was so much more variation and most sites didn't look like the default bootstrap template. But there were a lot of bad things about this era, particularly non standard browsers
This doesn't even get into the really good stuff like webrings. In the days before Google and SEO, you needed to be part of some "webring" of related sites if you wanted someone to find your page.
> [88x31 pixel buttons] told the tale of all the battles the individual had fought in order to get to where they were today. In other words, which editor (FrontPage ‘98, obviously), which web server (GeoCities, you moron), and which web ring you were a part of (whichever listed your site highest, which was none of them).
A 90s page isn't a 90s page without an animated gif of man digging a hole with "under construction".
The author forgot making rounded corners using images! I kind of miss the creativity of old web development, especially before responsive web design. There was so much more variation and most sites didn't look like the default bootstrap template. But there were a lot of bad things about this era, particularly non standard browsers
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Oh yeah, i think every one did - but they certainly werent used in "semantically correct containers".
Even HN, this very website, still uses spacer gifs. Sadly.
> img[src='s.gif'][width='40'] {width: 12px;}
Less we forget about What an amazing time. Felt like the wild west back then.
My contrarian take for the day: I liked frames. It was a nice built-in way to provide consistent site-level navigation and context when your styling options were otherwise pretty limited. The only problem was when it broke navigation outside the site, which was a pretty bad design decision and took a lot of self-discipline to prevent.
(and navigation could be fixed by browsers, maybe by encoding currently active frame targets into url after #)
It was x.gif, 1x1.gif was a waste of two bytes which was considerable savings on those insane table layouts.
As a backend developer - I literally still use when I’m forced to touch something on the front end
Genuine question: what's the problem with ?
My first software dev job was in the 90's writing PHP for a mom and pop ISP that was trying to get into app development. It was originally supposed to be Perl, the job interview was something like: Me: demos CRUD app for keeping track of my record collection, hosted on a free site Owner: You wrote this? Me: Yeah. Owner: This is in Perl? Me: Yeah. So I got hired. The day I got there, he told me they were going to use…
I'll always have a fond memory of window.status, which still exists but doesn't do anything on the majority of browsers anymore as they don't have status bars to modify the text of. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/stat...