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A friend described that era (looking back from the 2010s) as the "amateur web". Another thing worth mentioning is nobody really had any idea how to be responsiv
by jordanb 2y ago
A friend described that era (looking back from the 2010s) as the "amateur web". Another thing worth mentioning is nobody really had any idea how to be responsive.
The technology for it barely worked (things like percent widths for table cells) but design professionals did not know how to deal with it at all. They all came from print. The only upside is that the number of possible screen resolutions were pretty small.
- malfist 2y agoNobody knew about responsive design because there was no such thing as responsive design at that point. There were no mobile phones, no css media queries and pretty much everyone was viewing your webpage in 800x600 screens. Hell, was float even around then? All I remember from that time was tables.
- jordanb 2y agoWhich is why I said: > The only upside is that the number of possible screen resolutions were pretty small. But there was 640, 800, 1024. Many websites would do fixed width 800px and then you'd have to scroll left at 640 or have big gutter margins at 1024.
- al_borland 2y agoOr they could not try and get fancy, and their page would work on all screen sizes, and still will today. Some headers and paragraph tags are all a lot of pages needed, and those always work, no matter the screen.
- paradox460 2y agoI don't particularly care to read a line of text that's 5000 pixels long
- j45 2y agoResponsiveness was possible for a good part of 2000-2010. Just wasn’t in style. Flash going away maybe helped boost it.