Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by robbyking on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:14PM (#29298341)

I worked at homeshark.com (later rebranded iown.com) in the 90's, and we absolutely did the spacer gif trick to size our tables.

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by supermatt on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:25PM (#29298443)

Oh yeah, i think every one did - but they certainly werent used in "semantically correct containers".

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by kuschku on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:41PM (#29298593)

Even HN, this very website, still uses spacer gifs. Sadly.

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by stordoff on Sunday November 21, 2021 @07:45PM (#29301378)

Spacer GIFs which are resized for narrow screens (300-750px) using CSS depending on the tag's width attribute. That's not a technique I've seen before:

> img[src='s.gif'][width='40'] {width: 12px;}

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css)

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by mitchdoogle on Monday November 22, 2021 @03:32PM (#29311273)

I don't understand why anyone would consider this sad.

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by kuschku on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:49AM (#29318407)

Because it's not really reliable and breaks in many situations. reddits old nested divs work much better in contrast, and have a layout that matches the semantic situation better.

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