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> The editor was nothing but a text box, no WYSIWYG. Macromedia (RIP) Dreamweaver came out in 1997 and I was using it at school by ... 2003? I remember having
by o11c 2y ago
> The editor was nothing but a text box, no WYSIWYG.
Macromedia (RIP) Dreamweaver came out in 1997 and I was using it at school by ... 2003? I remember having to try to debug why someone's pages weren't working (it was because the filename contained a # ... and the MacOS9 permissions addon meant you could only edit files, not rename/delete them ...)
(yes, OS X had come out, but nobody used it yet - upgrading your OS is a stupid idea. In fact I explicitly begged my parents to go out and buy Windows 2000 to avoid the crap that was XP for "my" first computer)
- timeon 2y agoAlso there was MS FrontPage. (I didn't use it!)
- Dwedit 2y agoAlso FrontPage Express, which was basically a UI for MSIE's built-in HTML editor.
- piva00 2y agoIt was yet another skill to make what Dreamweaver rendering looked like into what the browser would actually display. I can't recall if Dreamweaver changed rendering engines at some point but during the time I used it (1998-2002) the rendered page on it could look very different than what Netscape, IE4 and IE5 would actually render. What a trip to memory lane reading this whole thread, haha. These early days of the web were amazing for tinkerers, after I learned HTML it took me into learning CGI, webservers, networking, Linux, databases and so on just from trying to make a visitor counter display myself.