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Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

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Post by MonaroVXR » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 3:56 AM UTC

Brajeshwar wrote: post #274

huntermeyer wrote: post #2

No mention of the page-view counter? Remember those, we'd put the message "just a counter, don't click" beneath them.

Well, I got a girlfriend just because of that. My personal blog was kinda popular in those days. A girl once commented/emailed (forgot) something in the lines of -- You gotta be kidding, the counters is fake and scripted, right? It is increasing every second or so. You cannot have so many visitors! Those were the times of the high hundred-thousands visits to my site if not millions each month. I told her to meet me a…

Nice, I love these kind of stories.

Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

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Post by bayindirh » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 9:49 AM UTC

tentacleuno wrote: post #350

TheJoeMan wrote: post #278

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Funnily enough you can see what a word doc looks like because the x in .docx is “XML” so save the word doc as .html and bask in the flaming dumpster fire of the font definitions at the top inline CSS.

I believe .pptx (PowerPoint) files are ZIP's, too. Try changing a .pptx file to .zip.

Every Office file format ending in an X is a .zip file. Got inspired from Open/LibreOffice's file formats heavily.

Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

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Post by edmcnulty101 » Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

benibela wrote: post #242

edmcnulty101 wrote: post #83

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The problem with wysiwyg is that I think CSS makes it hard to make these things. Those editors always seemed to make the kludgiest CSS because the CSS 'cascade' makes it hard to create drag and drop components. Any one more knowledgeable can correct me if I'm wrong.

The hardest problem is wysiwyg for different screen sizes

Ohh yeah.

Couldn't they do it with media queries?

Re: Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

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Post by theK » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 10:41 PM UTC

3np wrote: post #292

theK wrote: post #89

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Yeah this was awesome time and it did teach you more than just the trick, navigating unknown codebases, extracting the meaningful parts of a non trivial piece in f code… I really think the web community lost something with the transition to compiled uglified js and css…. Sure google will show you to some code if you manage to put what you are looking for into words but that isn’t always easy. Pitty that there is no s…

There is. Source Maps. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/So... Can’t tell if you’re sarcastic or not, assuming not all comment readers will be aware either way.

Just for the record, source maps are awesome and (unfortunately) typically disabled on production. The original remark was criticism towards this practice.