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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by snorkel » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:40 PM UTC

There was also a plugin called Java so that you could animate bouncing heads in your web page. I wonder whatever happened to that Java stuff.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by wycats » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:40 PM UTC

powrtoch wrote: post #21

Can anyone explain the bit about 1x1.gif being the only way, to this day, to vertically center elements? AFAIK there's still no way to vertically center a dynamic height element without javascript, so if invisible gifs can do it I'd at least like to know how.

You can use CSS flexbox too :)

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by aspensmonster » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:41 PM UTC

pwenzel wrote: post #30

dev360 wrote: post #16

Screw Frontpage, it littered your markup when you went into design mode. Hotdog Pro or Coffee Cup Editor was where it was at!

Nuh-uh, Allaire Homesite was the true editor!

I remember 1st Page 2000 from Evrsoft, though it might not have been quite in the 90s at that point.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by edem » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:41 PM UTC

Floating text following the mouse pointer. The bonus one was the scrolling text in the bottom left of the browser panel (location bar?)

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:41 PM UTC

david927 wrote: post #3

Oh God, I remember . And the tag. And I remember I made a Java applet that consumed so many resources that everyone who visited my page thought their machine had locked up. Good times.

What's necessarily wrong with the tag? It still has its legitimate use cases.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by snorkel » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:41 PM UTC

mpclark wrote: post #25

We weren't web developers back then, we were web masters

And if you ever ran into an error message on the web you would just contact the webmaster. Problem solved.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by alexchantastic » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:42 PM UTC

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #35

Needs a section on the joys of tables. Possibly my favorite bug ever: HTML has a weird relationship with whitespace; usually it doesn't matter much, except when it does: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol7/html_no1.htm This is one of the few bugs I've encountered that still makes me angry to this day. I spent so much time trying to figure it out.

Nope we still have that with HTML emails.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by grayrest » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:42 PM UTC

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.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by delgaudm » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:43 PM UTC

Anyone else remember, Webrings? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by bujatt » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 9:43 PM UTC

oh my God, _web rings_...