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It was x.gif, 1x1.gif was a waste of two bytes which was considerable savings on those insane table layouts.
by jawngee 5y ago
It was x.gif, 1x1.gif was a waste of two bytes which was considerable savings on those insane table layouts.
- adventured 5y agoIt was t.gif, for transparent.
- tomnipotent 5y agoAnd it had to be transparent, because that was the only way you wouldn't see it when you added it to a table cell so the background color would show up.
- robbyking 5y agoOurs was called 0.gif
- yesbabyyes 5y agoClever - then you don't need to waste a whole byte for an ascii character!
- selcuka 5y agoNot sure about the browsers of that era, but modern browsers will happily display ".gif" (without a file name) or even "1" (without the .gif extension).