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Let's see the same thing with CSS! Oh, how far we've come...
span {display: inline-block}
not bad! calc and inline-block is fairly recent, right?
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
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I feel old now.. in 1998, I was 24 and had been working as a web developer for a couple of years. I'd moved on from any thoughts of Netscape server-side dev, and was doing VBScript and JScript in classic ASP. JS was my favorite language back then, though dealing with MS COM collections was a pain. I remember using the 1x1 graphic a lot, combined with complex tables, and even other stuff. Of course, even before CSS, y…
Same here, I was 22 and finishing my CS degree with lots of experience on side projects and ready to jump into the golden .COM days. Still after all these years, the scars earned in web development projects, make me jump of joy when I get to do native desktop stuff instead.
That's funny, I actually really like web development... when it comes down to it, it's all hacking, only now you get better levels of abstraction.
It's not nearly as bad as the bad old days so to speak, and a lot of things can be very clean and elegant.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
span {display: inline-block}
not bad! calc and inline-block is fairly recent, right?
From memory, calc is IE9 and inline-block is IE6.
http://caniuse.com/ can answer these questions for you in general. If you're looking into newer layout techniques, you should also check out flexbox.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here, I was 22 and finishing my CS degree with lots of experience on side projects and ready to jump into the golden .COM days. Still after all these years, the scars earned in web development projects, make me jump of joy when I get to do native desktop stuff instead.
That's funny, I actually really like web development... when it comes down to it, it's all hacking, only now you get better levels of abstraction. It's not nearly as bad as the bad old days so to speak, and a lot of things can be very clean and elegant.
I think one reason for me, is that I am way much better doing pure graphics coding for customs components, than trying to make a component out of coupled with CSS/JavaScript magic.
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#395I 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…
So many memories on this list. Trumpet Winsock on Windows 3.11, dialing into a small mom and pop ISP in my town in Tennessee (I think they were pretty much all mom and pops back then). Then fire up Netscape and surf as well as you could at 2400 baud. Which actually worked pretty well because everything was slow and you just kind of expected it. Or learning cool HTML tricks by looking at the source, then practicing it…
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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#396> Have you ever shoved a into a tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer. Except that blink only existed in Netscape and marquee only existed in IE, and you could not have a webpage with both before around 2004, when firefox got support for marquee. At that point both tags were almost universally despised…
I have a feeling either Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver had support for using both together in their WYSIWYG editor...
Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
#397> Have you ever shoved a into a tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer. Except that blink only existed in Netscape and marquee only existed in IE, and you could not have a webpage with both before around 2004, when firefox got support for marquee. At that point both tags were almost universally despised…
Long before 2004 you could use Opera for that.
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#398If you care about typesetting and legibility, you sometimes really do need . It prevents the browser from inserting a line break between two words that belong together, like February 26th or Louis XIV. IIRC nbsp is short for non-breaking space. It was never designed to add arbitrary spacing to your layout, though ;)
To this days I still use it now and then to add a little bit of spacing to inline elements if I am too lazy to have s with margin all over the place.
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#399In Russia we served HTTP traffic on non-standard ports, such as 8100, 8101, 8102 in addition to default 80. It was very common in 90s. Can anyone guess, why?
i give up, tell us why!
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#400I remember how I hated my warez Frontpage '98 :)
warez, haven't heard that term in a while. i still pirate everything though lol