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Even HN, this very website, still uses spacer gifs. Sadly.
by kuschku 5y ago
Even HN, this very website, still uses spacer gifs. Sadly.
- stordoff 5y agoSpacer GIFs which are resized for narrow screens (300-750px) using CSS depending on the tag's width attribute. That's not a technique I've seen before: > img[src='s.gif'][width='40'] {width: 12px;} (from https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css)
- mitchdoogle 5y agoI don't understand why anyone would consider this sad.
- kuschku 5y agoBecause it's not really reliable and breaks in many situations. reddits old nested divs work much better in contrast, and have a layout that matches the semantic situation better.