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Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

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

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Post by dmje »

Wow. That took me back. All those things, every day. And table layouts of course. And let's not forget slicing images, and slapping those into tables too. If I remember rightly, Photoshop had an "export to slices" thing built in. Amazing. Loved it.

And of course one of the biggest issues with today's web: you can't just view source and copy paste. You're in the land of chasing back up CSS files, js libraries, or finding yourself unable to steal an image because it's not just an image you can right click on any more.

Golden times.

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

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Post by ssharp »

RedShift1 wrote: post #33

> The absolute first thing we did with CSS was use it to stop underlining links. I don't know how this trend came to be. I fought it for as long as I could, links are underlined and when you hovered them the underline would go away to make it extra clear this is an interactive element. I considered it a staple of good design. Why did we remove the underline?

Because you could?

Or pick a 90's trope: Ironic detachment? Only things that are obscure are cool?

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

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Post by samwillis »

They have missed out Perl CGI scripts from “Matts Script Archive”[0]!

I remember much difficulty as a 13YO trying to get his “guest book” Perl script to work for the first time (with all its famous security holes).

Oh, and “CGI Proxy”! Hosting that somewhere on a personal site so that we could get passed the filter on the schools internet. Anyone who knew how to host that had great power in the IT rooms!

Edit: wow cgi proxy has been updated as recently at 2019! [1]

0: https://web.archive.org/web/19980709151514/http://scriptarch...

1: https://jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/

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

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Post by tyingq »

RedShift1 wrote: post #33

> The absolute first thing we did with CSS was use it to stop underlining links. I don't know how this trend came to be. I fought it for as long as I could, links are underlined and when you hovered them the underline would go away to make it extra clear this is an interactive element. I considered it a staple of good design. Why did we remove the underline?

Probably the same reason we started to like flat buttons?

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

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Post by RedShift1 »

soperj wrote: post #40
RedShift1 wrote: post #33

> The absolute first thing we did with CSS was use it to stop underlining links. I don't know how this trend came to be. I fought it for as long as I could, links are underlined and when you hovered them the underline would go away to make it extra clear this is an interactive element. I considered it a staple of good design. Why did we remove the underline?

I suppose you leave all your links blue as well?

No, they had an appropriate color, different from normal text.

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

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Post by Brajeshwar »

Wow!

Thanks to pixel fonts, I was able to build a multi-million dollar project for Pocket PC Devices during the early 2000s. It has the clearest typography at that distance from the eye level, and the availability of the stylus made it possible to get 8-pt clear text. The project made a lot of physicians/clinics very happy and I got a lot of Thank You's for a very long time after its release.

Image Splicing. I remember building a developer tool, something of a 9-piece-splicer tool in Flash. It takes in an image, and spice the edges so you can have a liquid/elastic box with the desired border - sharp or rounded edges - use it with tables or DIVs.

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