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The author forgot making rounded corners using images! I kind of miss the creativity of old web development, especially before responsive web design. There was
by invalidusernam3 5y ago
The author forgot making rounded corners using images! I kind of miss the creativity of old web development, especially before responsive web design. There was so much more variation and most sites didn't look like the default bootstrap template. But there were a lot of bad things about this era, particularly non standard browsers
- telesilla 5y ago>rounded corners using images My brain is not happy to have this memory dragged out of cold storage! Like others here, I got my start answering an ad for someone who knew HTML forms, which I taught myself the day before the interview. Then quit my university job of menial labour and haven't looked back. Incredible times.
- mattl 5y agoI remember a great trick from Technorati where you’d load one image of a circle with CSS background and reposition it four times with <b> tags. It was a work of art.
- selcuka 5y agoAlso rounded corners using a 3x3 table and 8 images (4 for corners, 4 for the sides scaled to 100%) were fully responsive.
- efreak 5y agoThis is still used today for building Android apps, it's called a nine patch. https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/drawables#nine-patch https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/drawable...
- krapp 5y agoI remember at one point I had an animated imagemap as my main navigation....