Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
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Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
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Re: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
#2The best thing about old site designs is for me their small footprint. The whole payload of viaweb is 62.5kb, a nice size for fitting in the 64kbps of ISDN.
Why do I think this is relevant today? In many countries like Germany for example it is common to have a mobile traffic upper limit around between 200mb and 512mb per month. After that you only get GPRS. Use your smartphone for a week with only 2G (53.6kbps), to get a feeling what many smartphone users here think about it: "It is better to have a Wifi ap in reach."
Re: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
#3sadly, the functionality not work anymore :(
Re: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
#4The logo it's an animated gif. That's awesome. The only animated gif I ever seen on a web site that actually is stylish.
Re: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
#5Discussions from an year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3462071
Re: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
#6The logo it's an animated gif. That's awesome. The only animated gif I ever seen on a web site that actually is stylish.
Took forever to animate for me. Had my face almost against my screen trying to see it change.
Re: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
#7Honestly, other than the blocky buttons and bullets, that's a very pleasing site to look at, even by today's standards.
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#8Is this in response to another Yahoo buyout today? ;]
Re: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
#9The best thing about old site designs is for me their small footprint. The whole payload of viaweb is 62.5kb, a nice size for fitting in the 64kbps of ISDN. Why do I think this is relevant today? In many countries like Germany for example it is common to have a mobile traffic upper limit around between 200mb and 512mb per month. After that you only get GPRS. Use your smartphone for a week with only 2G (53.6kbps), to…
The irony is that nowadays we have better tools than ever to build small footprint sites, thanks to HTML5 & CSS3. We have versatile native HTML controls supporting styling; CSS gives us gradients, box-shadows, rounded borders, etc, eliminating the need for bitmaps. Why many sites are more bloated than ever is totally another story.
Re: Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
#10Honestly, other than the blocky buttons and bullets, that's a very pleasing site to look at, even by today's standards.
YMMV.