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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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post #373

> 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…

-- Here's something else CSS still can't do AFAIK: -- -- fixed" -- dynamic -- Actually, it can. I did it for you: Image: http://i.imgur.com/l5GPLNC.png Source: https://gist.github.com/Imdsm/9226944

One more without calc for older browsers:

.container {width: 80%;} .left {float:left; width: 300px; background: yellow;} .right {margin-left: 300px; background: red;}

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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post #328

In 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!

To solve the problem with non-US character-encoding. Web browsers of 90s were notoriously bad with client-side encoding. The only way to show content properly for all available clients was server-side recoding and different HTTP ports were used to serve content with different encoding - ISO, DOS, Windows and KOI. Each web-page had a set of links, usually in top-right corner, labeled as "ISO", "DOS", "Win" and "KOI" which transferred you to corresponding HTTP port.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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post #402

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i give up, tell us why!

To solve the problem with non-US character-encoding. Web browsers of 90s were notoriously bad with client-side encoding. The only way to show content properly for all available clients was server-side recoding and different HTTP ports were used to serve content with different encoding - ISO, DOS, Windows and KOI. Each web-page had a set of links, usually in top-right corner, labeled as "ISO", "DOS", "Win" and "KOI" w…

i was actually going to guess this. very interesting.
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