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I totally agree. Long homepages is a good example of how much what is considered good web design has changed since 1994. I remember making lots of micro-pages,
by thomasfl 12y ago
I totally agree. Long homepages is a good example of how much what is considered good web design has changed since 1994. I remember making lots of micro-pages, submenus and subsubmenus for even the smallest sites, to avoid scrolling on small 15" CRT screens in 1995. JavaScript was considered really bad practice until Gmail was launched in 2005 and jQuery in 2006. So there was no dropdown menus, unless you used applets. I remember overselling Java applets instead to clients in 1996 and 1997. Applets with listboxes and checkboxes looked different in all the different browsers. Embossed shiny buttons made in photoshop is hardly in use anymore.
In another 20 years time, what is considered good web design will probably be totally different anyway.
- clarry 12y agoYou don't need JS or applets for dropdowns.
- encoderer 12y agoYou did back then.
- frik 12y agoJavascript was very popular for drop-down menu ever since Netscape Navigator 2 and IE 3 (DHTML). Java applets were a lot less common. Macromedia's Flash 5/MX took over that Java applet marketshare around 2000.
- encoderer 12y agoYeah, GP said "dont need JS or applets", but you did indeed need JS.
- encoderer 12y agoMaps is what changed the game on JS to me. It was magic what they did. And then Gmail came and leveled it up again. I still remember a great Joel on Software article where Spolsky talks about "things that just aren't possible on the web" like red underlines for misspelled words. We get that now from the browser in text controls, but even if we didn't, it would be pretty trivial. Progress!