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Yup, no grid, no flex, the only way to ensure your chopped up photoshop design would work was with tables. Now we don’t use images for everything, we use CSS/i
by gabereiser 4y ago
Yup, no grid, no flex, the only way to ensure your chopped up photoshop design would work was with tables.
Now we don’t use images for everything, we use CSS/iconography/typography/styles. Back then though we didn’t have a whole lot of options in CSS so we used images EVERYWHERE! Drop shadow, that’s a transparent png image. Gradients, jpgs. Animations, gifs. Want to play a video? Real player or flash. It was crude, it was hard, and it was a compatibly nightmare.
- mdp2021 4y ago> a compatibly nightmare With some "giving up", "stopping early" and appending a "...Best viewed on".
- gabereiser 4y agoOr worse, showing a splash screen that said to please use chrome. Ugh…
- 5560675260 4y agoCan't say that I still have nightmares about slicing out all those decorative elements out of a PSD file, but I absolutely don't miss that era.
- petepete 4y agoI was explaining how we used to add drop shadows on web pages to one of the younger members of our team a month or two ago and they found it hilarious. An image sliced up into several bits, a table (often embedded in another table) and various other hacks to make everything line up nicely versus a single line of CSS now. What a time to be alive.
- rjh29 4y agoI remember doing rounded corners with images inside a 3x3 table!