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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

snorkel wrote: post #51

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.

It kept being installed on millions of consumer PC's despite there being no practical reason to anymore, resulting in millions of malware-infected PC's. :p

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by andrewrice »

AznHisoka wrote: post #37

I used Dreamweaver and hosted in AngelFire, and later on Hypermart. Optimized for Altavista. Signed up for link exchanges. "Submitted" my site to the 1000 search engines. Good ole days.

Hypermart was great. Just had to make sure you strategically placed your tags to block the ads.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by 0x0 »

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.

A little mix of display:table and display:table-cell and vertical-align:middle will get you there without any JS. For example http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by snorkel »

normloman wrote: post #34
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 do you mean? The tag is a semantic, valid part of html5. http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/hr.html

is the vestigial tailbone of HTML

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by dalke »

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.

It's pseudo-centered, not really centered, and can't center a dynamic element.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

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Post by alttab »

d23 wrote: post #26
pvnick wrote: post #11

> HTML For Dummies doesn't cover the tag until chapter four? Ah yes, HTML For Dummies . For me, the book that started it all. Reading that book during my elementary school Pokemon craze led me to create my first serious website from scratch, Mew's Hidden Lair [1]. Except back then it was Dummies 101: HTML [2]. And I do remember how magical it was to type in that command and see an image of Pikachu show up on my scree…

Uh, are you me? My HTML book was a different one, but I definitely had the pokemon[1] thing. All in elementary school. Who knew it would end up being my career? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070515090557/http://www.maxpag...

Worms 2, tripod.com, paint shop pro. Can't stop me.

SSI changed my life, and I coded a 50 page website in a textarea. on 28.8. In the snow. Without shoes.

Not much has changed. I use vim now.

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