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I remember a friend would troll me by obscuring a url which led to this website that hosted an image with a ridiculously large resolution for computer hardware of the time to render, resulting in a BSOD within 10 seconds. Got me every time!
this was still a problem until very recently. A few years ago I linked a 50k by 50k image in an IRC channel, 2 people experienced an X crash and one had a kernel panic.
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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.
Fixed widths and heights....it is amazing that [as it seems] no one in the entire w3c or building the browsers know people that write applications for multiple languages, different directional settings (right-to-left vs left-to-right), and even verticalization (replacing terms within the product depending on the customer). Things that are trivial in native applications back in the early 90s still can't be done easily…
Stay tuned for episode 2 including: * Nested table layouts, adventures in collapsed borders * window.status = "awesome" * HRs: "I can make a 3d hole in my page" * document.all being the best DHTML api.
> 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…
Oh man. I was a "web developer" back then. - 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" pag…
> - all those crappy tutorials and all the real "books" I
> had to buy to learn.
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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.
In 867, the Macedonian dynasty took over Byzantium and started its golden age.
The 860s was the start of the First Bulgarian Empire. Bulgaria became Christian (864). The Cyrillic alphabet was developed shortly afterwards as a written script for church books.
The Muslims conquest of Sicily started in 827. They conquered Crete in 820.
Leo VI formally abolished the Roman consular dating system in 888. The 800s is when we started to use Anno Domini widely. (BTW, Leo VI also composed hymns which are still sung in the Eastern Orthodox Church.)
The Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution started in China in 845, in part to get the money needed to pay off the 843 victory against the Uyghurs. The fall of the Uyghur Khaganate caused the Uyghurs to migrate eastwards.
Judaization of the Khazars mostly took place in the 800s.
The 800s is the Pueblo I Era, when the Ancient Pueblo population (the Anasazi) constructed and lived in pueblos. 850 is the start of a major drought in the area, which lasted for 50 years.
It was also the terminal classic period of Mesoamerica. The oldest date found at Chichen Itza is equivalent to 832 AD.
FWIW, the world population then was about 225 million. It's about 7 billion now. That's a 28x difference, which surely affects how much change can occur.
OR ANYONE STILL DOING HTML EMAILS
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…
There is a solution!
Ha ha! Brilliant! CGI Scripts anyone? Unfortunately I remember very well the days when it all started to become popular. I created my personal Web page in '94 hosted on the University's servers. 2 years later I was creating Web applications using shell or C-based CGI scripts . And then when I saw Duke juggling I started to work on Java.
I did at least used Python's wsgiref CGI adapter, so it wouldn't be hard to migrate to a newer technology.