In this episode we reminisce about how things used to be done and how much web development has changed in the last 25 years. From under construction gifs to the rise and fall of jQuery we cover it all.

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 Equal Height columns 

• Matchmedia.js

Conditional comments

star selector hack ('star plus html) css hack.

Microsoft Kicks Off Campaign to Kill Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft anti-trust lawsuit

Image Ready - slicing design

WYSISWYG (drag and drop) html editors

• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Microsoft Front Page
• Adobe Go Live

Adaptive Design (not responsive design)

Fluid Layout (CSS tricks article)

Rounded corners with sliding doors

Image Sprites

Cufon Fonts

Navigation tabs

CSS Zen Garden

Blink, Marquee (blink no longer works despite what Sean said in the show. However, the marquee tag does work)

Sean's Boilerplate (Season 7 Episode 5)

Animated gifs

• Under construction animated gif

1TB archive of Geocities (article) 

Web rings

Javascript 

• jQuery 
• Mootools

 

 

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