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On the other side we were told that those colorful gradients that will be the fad of the 20s are cheap and we were scolded by professional designers for using t
by pmontra 3y ago
On the other side we were told that those colorful gradients that will be the fad of the 20s are cheap and we were scolded by professional designers for using them.
Not that we had CSS gradients, we were using gifs or jpegs.
- ogogmad 3y agoI don't understand. I'm interested what this means.
- lofties 3y agoWe’d generate a 18x1 GIF with a gradient color change (or from a solid color to a transparent color) and stretched that out over however pixels we wanted to create a gradient-like effect. e.g <IMG SRC=“/gradient.gif” HEIGHT=“18” WIDTH=“600”>
- ogogmad 3y agoGradients look boss.
- pmontra 3y agoGradients as decoration look boss today. They looked cheap 30 to at least 20 years ago. Then they were forgotten and that made their return possible. They'll become unfashionable again. It's an eternal cycle.
- WorldMaker 3y agoWindows 98/ME and the Office versions of the same time are often blamed for making gradients seem boring and uncool. (Windows put a Gradient in every title bar and Office over-used them in all sort of other ways.) Microsoft was definitely an interesting contributor to both the fad at the time and the "gradients are boring" rejection a few years later because they seemed boring and uptight like an Office program.