Only 90s Web Developers Remember This

Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by mattgreenrocks on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:35PM (#7300725)

Needs a section on the joys of tables.

Possibly my favorite bug ever: HTML has a weird relationship with whitespace; usually it doesn't matter much, except when it does: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol7/html_no1.htm

This is one of the few bugs I've encountered that still makes me angry to this day. I spent so much time trying to figure it out.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by tracker1 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:11PM (#7301007)

Ugh.. the rendering bugs.. when combining tables and divs... IE for the longest time had a bug where combining table and div elements nested, when exceeding a certain complexity, you'd just get a white screen... It was fixed in IE6 on XP, but not on earlier versions of windows.

That was a nightmare of support issues on a few apps for me.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by mynameishere on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @07:52PM (#7301945)

Needs a section on the joys of tables.

I don't think you need to be a 90s developer for that. Look at the HTML of the website you're currently using.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by eclipxe on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:38PM (#7300752)

Tables + frames!

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by saraid216 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:46PM (#7301249)

Who needs position: fixed when you have frames!?

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by alexchantastic on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:42PM (#7300784)

Nope we still have that with HTML emails.

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