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Looks great, but before it's too late I want to point out this is how the web looked like until about 1996 or 1998 at the latest maybe. After that, and even bef

Looks great, but before it's too late I want to point out this is how the web looked like until about 1996 or 1998 at the latest maybe. After that, and even before CSS was fully available in browsers [1], image tiling was everywhere ie misusing the table element with image backgrounds. Tools such as DreamWeaver had this built in and it was a major selling point I believe. [1]: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS20/history.html https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS20/history.html

netsharc 3y ago
A lot of sites could already change the typeface or colors with <body color bgcolor> and <font face>, but many authors didn't use them. Did those attributes come with HTML 2, or HTML 3.2? Damn, I'm old enough to remember learning about the "new" HTML 3.2!
- tannhaeuser 3y ago
  According to historic SGML DTDs for HTML, HTML 2 [1], dated 1995-09-21, doesn't declare a color attribute on body yet, while HTML 3.2, getting recommendation status in 1997-01-14, introduced it. HTML 4.01 strict removed [3] it, while HTML 4 loose [4] still has it. It's absent from the W3C-recommended HTML 5 spec captured as DTD [5] published in 2014, as well as the DTD for WHATWG's current HTML review draft dated January, 2023 [6]. Interestingly, <pre> and others were "deprecated" in HTML 2.0 already. Needless to say, they've become un-deprecated and are still in HTML. [1]: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html.dtd https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html.dtd [2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/SPSD-html32-20180315/ https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/SPSD-html32-20180315/ [3]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html [4]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd [5]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/w3c-html5-dtd.html https://sgmljs.net/docs/w3c-html5-dtd.html [6]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/html230116.html https://sgmljs.net/docs/html230116.html

netsharc 3y ago

A lot of sites could already change the typeface or colors with <body color bgcolor> and <font face>, but many authors didn't use them. Did those attributes come with HTML 2, or HTML 3.2? Damn, I'm old enough to remember learning about the "new" HTML 3.2!

tannhaeuser 3y ago
According to historic SGML DTDs for HTML, HTML 2 [1], dated 1995-09-21, doesn't declare a color attribute on body yet, while HTML 3.2, getting recommendation status in 1997-01-14, introduced it. HTML 4.01 strict removed [3] it, while HTML 4 loose [4] still has it. It's absent from the W3C-recommended HTML 5 spec captured as DTD [5] published in 2014, as well as the DTD for WHATWG's current HTML review draft dated January, 2023 [6]. Interestingly, <pre> and others were "deprecated" in HTML 2.0 already. Needless to say, they've become un-deprecated and are still in HTML. [1]: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html.dtd https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html.dtd [2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/SPSD-html32-20180315/ https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/SPSD-html32-20180315/ [3]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html [4]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd [5]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/w3c-html5-dtd.html https://sgmljs.net/docs/w3c-html5-dtd.html [6]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/html230116.html https://sgmljs.net/docs/html230116.html