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In the very early days, before Flash, making a website was a difficult proposition. HTML was an esoteric structural markup language, and much of the effort of e
by dleslie 7y ago
In the very early days, before Flash, making a website was a difficult proposition. HTML was an esoteric structural markup language, and much of the effort of early browsers was focused on "correcting" mistakes made by individuals attempting to build websites.
<map> was the true monstrosity, <table> and <img> were improvements upon it, but were burdened by padding and margins added by early browsers that were difficult to modify and retain consistency.
The situation hasn't really improved much; creating a website nowadays is a matter of dedicating yourself to a custom content platform, like Blogger/Squarespace/Wordpress, or learning the arcane language of HTML+CSS+JS.
That's a far cry from the drag, drop, click, publish or share of Flash. Just how does an individual create a .EXE of their animation/game/document and send it via email, nowadays?
- mattmcknight 7y agoHave you forgotten Dreamweaver and Front Page? You didn't need to write HTML directly.
- dleslie 7y agoThose were almost contemporary, almost, with Flash. There was also plenty of websites made by exporting HTML from Word. They also weren't nearly as good as Flash at creating layout and appearance that would be consistent on all browsers.
- grawprog 7y agoI had forgotten about it. That takes me back though. My mom made a website using Dreamweaver way way back to post stories she'd written. She was so excited about it and the fact that she'd been able to do it all herself. It was fairly tasteful as far as sites from that era went, There were only one or two animated gifs at the top and the background was pretty easy on the eyes.