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@C0D4 framesets were the devil! I remember using them to make side menus on admin backends
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@kurtr
i typically used them for a header + side menu + content frame layout.
menu triggering content frame src. like a massive iframe.
the days before Ajax would make some designers / devs cry now. -
@C0D4 I think half of them would quit if browser standards were rolled back 10 or even just 6 years. I only remembered because I just opened up some legacy code with a frameset nav and table-bordered layout, seeing it now inflicts physical pain but to most devs these days they would probably think the designer was on crack to do it that way.
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You forget back then responsive webdesign wasnt needed. Nowadays everything has to work from 4K monitors to a small smartphone. Table designs arent that bad to work with as long as you can say "fuck responsiveness". Ofcourse there are a lot better ways nowadays and I never heard a client say they wanted a unresponsive website.
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@fsty how the hell would you do newsletter without fucking tables, if for example motherfucking Outlook just refuses to respect floats, as it uses fucking Microsoft Word as HTML interpreter! Fuck me sideways! For the love of bill gates, even ie would be better than fucking word! Fuck!
To all you devs still wet behind the ears ranting about css - you have no clue just how good you have it.
Most designs used to be table based (table-ception) and to give something a border with round corners or a "drop shadow" you would literally create a table to hold you content with an border of cells containing a background image of a corner / border.
Now you use border-radius or box-shadow as a 1 liner. Stop bitching about centering things and figure out how to hack it like we did.
If you remember this whats your least missed 20th century hack?
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20th century browser hacks
table based design