Remember rounded corners? It was a real pain, there were so many hacks to achieve something simple as
border-radius: 16px;
My other favorite was sIFR font loading :) Because font support was... patchy, a technique was invented to replace headers with Flash embeds which rendered the desired font:
...and that was a grand improvement over having to make a "tic-tac-toe" table where you'd be putting things in the particular surrounding cells to fake these fancy border-types.
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Remember rounded corners? It was a real pain, there were so many hacks to achieve something simple as
My other favorite was sIFR font loading :) Because font support was... patchy, a technique was invented to replace headers with Flash embeds which rendered the desired font:https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/sifr-2004
I was so glad to replace SIFR with Cufon: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
Ah, thanks, I knew there was another one :)
Nine-Boxes, aka: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...
...and that was a grand improvement over having to make a "tic-tac-toe" table where you'd be putting things in the particular surrounding cells to fake these fancy border-types.
A skit
Boss enters, enthusiastic hand gestures
dev: Web 2.0? what the hell are you on about?
Boss: evasive mumbling
dev: Oh... css border-radius Sure, I will get right on it.