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PG Uses an Image Map, Gif Bullets, and Tables for Everything

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PG Uses an Image Map, Gif Bullets, and Tables for Everything

Post by gursikh » Mon, Jan 03, 2011, 4:20 AM UTC

view-source:http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

The menu is a single image mapped to urls.

He generates bullets by stretching out a gif and uses a plethora of tds for absurd purposes.

This makes me smile. And then shudder. And then smile.

Re: PG Uses an Image Map, Gif Bullets, and Tables for Everything

Post by coderdude » Mon, Jan 03, 2011, 4:24 AM UTC

That's because he hosts his site on Yahoo Store, and if I recall correctly all the old-school RTML templates generated image maps for the left-hand navigation. Shudder, RTML has brought my life a lot of pain over the years.

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