Tales from Webdev Past - Cleafix × Floats × Cufon × Guestbooks × PNG Fix × More!
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats - Een podcast door Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers
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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about tales from web dev past — clearfix, floats, flash, cufon, guestbooks, hit counters, and more!
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Show Notes
04:28 - Float-based layouts
09:29 - Loading Screens:
- Two websites - one flash and one HTML
- Splash screen
11:22 - Hit counters
12:28 - Guestbooks
13:28 - Flash
- 3rd party player
- Media dragged its feet FOREVER
- ☠️ Killed by Steve Jobs
18:46 - Fonts
24:15 - Folder-based version control
- ☠️ Killed by Git
26:22 - FTP
- ☠️ Killed by Git, then many other things
28:40 - CSS Zen Garden
- CSS Zen Garden
- ☠️ Killed by CSS being better
32:02 - TextMate
- Coda
- Notepad++
- Adobe GoLive
- FrontPage
- Macromedia / Dreamweaver
- ☠️ Killed by Sublime Text, then VSCode
33:58 - Sliding doors
- A technique for rounded corners on buttons
☠️ Killed by CSS
35:29 - PNG Fix
- ☠️ Killed by the death of IE6
37:53 - 9-Panel layouts
- ☠️ Killed by CSS
39:20 - CSS 3 Please
- CSS 3 Please
- Paul Irish
- ☠️ Killed by modern CSS
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