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Oh God, I remember. And the <hr> tag. And I remember I made a Java applet that consumed so many resources that everyone who visited my page thought their mach
by david927 13y ago
Oh God, I remember.
And the <hr> tag. And I remember I made a Java applet that consumed so many resources that everyone who visited my page thought their machine had locked up. Good times.
- larrik 13y agoI remember when I realized the <hr> tag supported a color attribute...it was like pulling Excalibur out of the stone.
- endlessvoid94 13y agoThat's such a good analogy, I'm going to shamelessly steal this.
- normloman 13y agoWhat do you mean? The <hr> tag is a semantic, valid part of html5. http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/hr.html http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/hr.html
- snorkel 13y ago<hr> is the vestigial tailbone of HTML
- jayvanguard 13y agoI used to love the <HR> tag. Has anyone invented a better way to break up sections?
- nkuttler 13y agoSection? Sounds like something with a header? I would probably just wrap the section in a section tag.
- stan_rogers 13y agoNot necessarily. A horizontal rule (or flourish) is often used in fiction as a context-shift indicator within a chapter. Technical documents are not the only documents.
- snorkel 13y agoBorders and white space. Funny how much of modern clean design aesthetic was already possible to do with basic HTML back in the day but we were too fascinated with blinky flashy colorful tags to ask ourselves "Doesn't this altogether look like neon hell?"
- joshvm 13y agoWe had to design websites in high school, circa 7-8 years ago. Pretty sure if anyone had implemented a flat desing they would have been given a D for poor effort. It's all about that terrible blue button in Dreamweaver that animated concentric circles when you hovered over it..
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoWhat's necessarily wrong with the <hr> tag? It still has its legitimate use cases.
- tripzilch 13y agoFor instance, when you list corporate structure on your website you can use it to delineate the HR department.
- 10feet 13y agoIf your java applet just said hello it consumed so many resources. It took minute just to load java, what a stupid idea that was.
- endlessvoid94 13y agoNot all that different from Flash, or any other container.
- gpjt 13y agoHeh. I wrote a JavaScript DHTML demo in 1999 that I locked to a browser window sized 640x480px because otherwise it made PCs grind to a halt and crashed Macs. Nowadays it runs on my phone just fine... Link for anyone who's interested: http://www.gilesthomas.com/old-javascript/stars/index.html http://www.gilesthomas.com/old-javascript/stars/index.html
- zeckalpha 13y agoJust tell everyone you're using WebGL and submit it here.
- sizzle 13y agoI remember a friend would troll me by obscuring a url which led to this website that hosted an image with a ridiculously large resolution for computer hardware of the time to render, resulting in a BSOD within 10 seconds. Got me every time!