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Why the dimensions 88x31? How did that come to be back then?
by Waterluvian 3y ago
Why the dimensions 88x31? How did that come to be back then?
- xnx 3y agoNetscape made a popular button with these dimensions in 1995 that everyone used as a basis to riff off of. I don't know if there were specific motivations for those exact dimensions by the original designer.
- upwardbound 3y agoI'm guessing that the reason that the vertical height is 31 instead of 32 is that having the vertical height be an odd number makes it possible to vertically center a number of important symbols, such as +, -, >, arrows, circles, X's, and so on.
- tyingq 3y agoNot exactly answering your question, but I'm pretty sure Geocities started it. See the left sidebar in this wayback grab from 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://www.geocities.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://www.geocit... So people would use those as a starting point and customize them. Why geocities picked those dimensions? Not sure. They are in a <td> with a width of 120.