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I remember using images that looked almost identical to in place of an actual tag. Plus the million variations (you didn't have a real site until you have a image that matched your theme). I remember the 1x1 transparent pixel with great affection---it was the output of my first significant CGI script (in Perl, of course) that I used as a site counter. Winsock! Fuck yeah! I remember when a web page and a gopher site l…
What about CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive [1] which amazingly is still alive? [1] http://www.scriptarchive.com/
Yes yes yes! You were a webmaster based on the article posted. You were a web developer if you'd torn apart and rebuild Matt's Forum, Poll, and other widgets.
Oh 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.
I remember when I realized the tag supported a color attribute...it was like pulling Excalibur out of the stone.
Oh 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.
If your java applet just said hello it consumed so many resources. It took minute just to load java, what a stupid idea that was.
What about CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive [1] which amazingly is still alive? [1] http://www.scriptarchive.com/
This post makes me happy :). and 0.gif (fewer characters!) bring back memories. What I miss most was the hacky tricks you'd have to put together to get load times down on dialup. Carefully controlling the order in which things rendered. Early DHTML. Slicing layouts so that as much as humanly possible the images repeated. Tables tables tables. IFrames that talked to each other. The javascript that converted s t…
Keeping load times down on dialup. last month I hit my usage cap and was capped to 256k downstream. 256k. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING SIX! FIVE TIMES FASTER THAN DIALUP! I thought that's fine I can cope. The internet is highly broken at 256k. Pages basically don't ever completely load. You end up having to cancel. You end up turning off images, turning off javascript. I can't imagine what the web is like at 56k now…
Once I connected it took almost 2 hours just to start Outlook.
> 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 anyw…
http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/
Not terrible but still a hack. Should just be a simple way of doing this by now... Still, this technique is better than a spacer gif!
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Was it Floops?
Whoa! Totally! Ahh, and I see now why it would have been so hard to author - it was based on motion capture.
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Vertical centering with CSS, without table emulation: http://jsfiddle.net/mBBJM/1/
IIRC that technique only works with fixed heights so it is useless for most layout scenarios, and is why I specified "dynamic" in my comment. CSS is perfectly fine for fixed size layouts but it completely sucks for dynamic ones, especially if you want to mix fixed and dynamic elements. Tables OTOH handle these layout scenarios simply, concisely and without hacks.