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[–] annoyed_onion 95 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just put everything into tables. That's how we did it when I were a lad

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

OG grid layout

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to enjoy building webpages with Notepad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man this triggered some forgetten memories.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 16 points 1 year ago

This is my favorite Notepad memory: in the late '90s I went through a six-month stretch where Internet Explorer's "View Source" command just totally stopped working. It would normally open up the HTML source of a page in Notepad and suddenly not having this made debugging ... challenging to say the least. Nobody else that I worked with had this problem and nobody could figure out what had happened to me.

The culprit turned out to be an inexplicable IE bug where View Source wouldn't work if you had a shortcut named "Notepad" on your desktop. It didn't even have to be a shortcut to Notepad, it just had to be named that. The fix was to just rename the shortcut "NotepadX" and then View Source worked again.

[–] annoyed_onion 3 points 1 year ago

Elements and attributes IN ALL CAPS, because reasons

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Works for Word aswel (just make em invisible)

[–] Klear 5 points 1 year ago

Also works for Lua.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This and bespoke, hand crafted rounded edges.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

that's how I kept my digtal axes so sharp by hand grinding img corners

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's right, we don't need no stinkin' CSS!

Update: Just for clarity - we most definitely need the stinkin' CSS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Frames… Lots of frames.