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1996 Humour Ahead: Spacer.gif, Table Layouts

In case you missed it, Dustin Diaz has written this excellent parody on what the hottest web techniques were like before webstandards and css were invented.
Seven hottest web 1.0 techniques to trick out your webpage.

2) Animation without JavaScript

Believe it! It’s true. Drop those old scripts that made your website scroll and blink because why bother programming JavaScript when plain ‘ol HTML can do it for you! These are the ever-so-beloved <blink> and <marquee> tags.

blink and marquee

<blink>Sale! Sale! Sale! Buy now and save big!</blink>

<marquee>Welcome welcome welcome! Today is the beginning of the end, buy now!</marquee>

Fabulous humour, just the way I like it :). Especially I love the hit counter:

Hits today

Oh and by the way, did you know who invented the spacer.gif?

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This entry was posted by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 18:28 (GMT-1) and is filed under HTML, Humor, JavaScript, Web Standards. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “1996 Humour Ahead: Spacer.gif, Table Layouts”

  1. Urzeit Standards: das SPACER-Element - sprungmarker Says:
    December 13th, 2007 at 00:46 (GMT-1)

    […] das im Artikel “Seven hottest web 1.0 techniques to trick out your webpage” (via justaddwater.dk) gefundene Beispiel sei der Satire zu verdanken. Dort wurde empfohlen, statt des Spacer-GIFs doch […]

  2. Chan Elson Says:
    November 3rd, 2009 at 01:58 (GMT-1)

    Sadly, the hit counter is still employed by many today. Poor, pitiful souls. :)