Name yer most annoying HTML/CSS/JS practices from the 1990s. I'm going to go with DHTML page transitions. Drove me to seizures. Now you!
Aug 3, 2012 · 12:15 AM UTC
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@mollydotcom How can you not mention marquee/blink. Table PNG slices. MIDI backgrounds.
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@freddier PNG? We couldn't use that in the 90s (No IE support then no IE alpha transparency support. ;)
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@mollydotcom animated clocks following the cursor.
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Wasn't that one of your early JS demos @codepo8 ? :: Mols prepares to run away very very quickly ::
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@sowrey The scourge that is now infographics. I agree, and yet it's still a very common practice - not something we left back in the 90s :(
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@mollydotcom the under construction gif - infact the whole mentality that you build a site then it’s done
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@iamelliot Right. I use the pregnancy metaphor frequently. "What, the job ships in 9 months and we're done?" NO! That's when the job STARTS!
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@mollydotcom maintaining separate JavaScript for IE and Netscape. Happy happy joy joy
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Ah yes, @AndrewRohling - The two DOM model. Some can't handle one DOM <bada-bazinga! />
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