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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 61 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because things were much worse in the beforetime

[–] Damage@feddit.it 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What, you didn't enjoy slicing up images and arranging them in borderless tables?

[–] breckenedge@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Eh the software handled all that. Rounded corners tho…

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rounded corners tho…

Just a small gif (as png didn't exist/widely supported) that had the rounded corner. Then if someone wanted to change the color or background you would have to redo all the images. Fun fun.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Nah it's fine, we'll just do the whole website in Shockwave.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 3 months ago

WYSIWYG editors were evil

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The software? Are you talking about Adobe ~~Dreamweaver~~ Dreamcrusher or something?

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My money's on Microsoft Frontpage

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What a catastrophic attempt at a GUI website editor.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago

Imagine how I felt when they decided to teach us that in school, when I was already familiar with Dreamweaver... And notepad

[–] curry@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Please indicate where IE touched you.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

*gestures broadly at entire body

[–] curry@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I put on my trenchcoat and fedora hat.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

In my faux column

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago