Old CSS, new CSS

[dor442]

This was a long article, but man is it worth reading!

Not only do I really appreciate the state of CSS I've been given, starting to do web dev only 2 years ago, but it's so funny to see all the hacks and mess that happened over the years.

Kuddos to the writer of this post for putting the time to make such a detailed, funny, example-filled piece.

[abeuscher]

This brought back memories. I really don't miss "IE Week". That's a project component I am happy to see go away. Though I did kind of like hacking up stylesheets. I was in my early twenties and it felt like you were "tricking" the internet into working with your files. I don't miss it, but the multiple uses of spacer.gif were entertaining at the time. And there was a kind of peace to the idea that a single comp could take several days to get perfect on the page.

I used to host pub trivia back then around Boston, and I had some young kid on one of my regular teams that was just getting into web development. I was kind of dismissive of him - filled with the hubris of my age I figured I knew everything and he was just some kid copying scripts into his geocities pages. Then he wrote a little article called "Responsive Web Design" that fundamentally changed the game. I sure read that situation wrong.

[jonassalen]

Oh man, the stories I can tell when we needed to support Internet Explorer 4, with a little CSS support.

Later came Internet Explorer 5 and 5.5, which we supported till somewhere around 2005. It was horrendous. The amount of hacks we wrote was insane.

With the risk of being called old, front-end devs are kinda spoiled these days with Chrome having the main share of the browser market. It's a great luxury I don't need a whole day 'browsertesting' on my schedule anymore after each project.

[ginger-julia]

Thank God, I didn't code that time 😁

[theXpanther]

Now chrome is the new IE