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Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

#91
I can still remember the client wanting the underlined links removed from the website. I explained that this was how everybody new what a link was, but it didn't fit the style. The first time I heard about this css thing. It was tables all the way down in those days, and there was talk that this wasn't the best way to do things.

Yet still to this day, something are only manageable with tables. But with have display:table-cell now, so it is all different.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

#92

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.

> * window.status = "awesome"

The discovery of window.status was a landmark of human achievement. Scrolling text in the browser's own UI? Sign me up, I'll take 40.

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

#94
We 're kind of lucky to have lived through the internet/web's adolescence. I mean, how often can one live through the birth of a groundbreaking technology?

For me, it was Jon Udell's column on Byte that first got me interested in web technologies. Great guy.

P.S. Am I the only one who wrote all my html in lowercase? (and always used ' instead of " (one keypress less)?)

Re: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

#98

My first website was hosted on a free angelfire.com account. Or was it geocities? Maybe both, but it certainly had a lot of blinking gifs and photoshop-sliced buttons with rollover affects.

My dad would use rollover images for his buttons. To get the responsiveness he needed, he preloaded all the images by displaying them 1x1 pixel at the bottom of the page.
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