The old Web features

[PavelLaptev]

Describe the old Web features that you remember. If you have references and links, please indicate them.

[cpcallen]

"Under construction" signs.

[freakynit]

1. Bold and flashing text backgrounds
2. Custom pointers (funny ones mostly)

[AGMSR]

"HTML Guild" badge. "Webring" badge. Various award badges (Top 100 Websites). Page-hit counters.

[bigodines]

"Free Mitnick" gif and page-hit coonters

[donpdonp]

At first I expected just a smattering of UnderConstruction gifs but this really tells a history and has great content. I especially liked the default screen size going from portrait to landscape as the years go by. I just want to suggest putting the content also on neocities.org since part of their mission is to keep the 'old web' alive.

[crepererum]

• Snow effect during winter / Christmas.
• slow, animated navigation drop down menus
• loads of pop-ups

[nullbasis]

Glitter/confetti trailing behind the cursor!

[redlicadev]

• analog/digital clock
• marquee
• page rank button - http://www.latest-techtips.com/2010/10/how-to-add-page-rank-button-on-your.html
• no info about cookies :)

[fxOne]

<marquee> Element

[honnorat]

The <blink>BLINK</blink> element ! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/blink

[seanmulholland]

Invisible spacer GIFs 😬

[PavelLaptev]

That's nice guys! I'll investigate all your comments and update the website 😄

[andrewMuntyan]

• w3c validated badge like this
• rounded corners technique for browsers who does not support border-radius when you implement it with 4 additional images/backgrounds positioned absolutely.
• clear: both css rule for dealing with floats
• bootstrap
• background images implemented trough the sprites!

[koesper]

CSS hacks to workaround IE6 and IE5.5-for-mac quirks, eg the infamous 'holly hack' https://web.archive.org/web/20150324181023/http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2&cid=C37E0

[koesper]

'superfish' and other dropdown menus

[nickisnoble]

• Snowing / galaxy gif backgrounds
• Unreadable text on crazy tiled backgrounds
• Spritesheets for icons and hover states
• Image replacement in general
• The "Sliding Door" technique (CSS2 stuff)
• slicing PSDs
• MooTools vs JQuery
• XHTML & DHTML
• Java Applets
• +1 for spacer gif, <blink>, and <marquee>

[nealio82]

• Choosing between 255-colour GIFs or PNGs with the DXImageTransform filter to make IE behave when you wanted a transparent background image (FWIR if you had a transparent channel in a GIF you lost one of the colours, hence 255)
• MIDI music
• Using image sprites for JS rollover effects
• Having to set flash movies to be transparent so dropdown menus weren't clipped behind them
• Adding "This site is best viewed on ..." at the bottom of your homepage because you only had one computer / browser to test on
• Mystery meat navigation

[jensf]

Enjoyed this, thanks. A few I remember:

Blink

<blink>only works in netscape</blink>

now just a memory

Marquee

<marquee direction="up">only worked in ie</marquee> 

obsolete ... but still works in chrome ... seriously - I'm shocked.

Do not wrap my table cell! Why do we need to use  

Frames We still have iframe, but frames are gone. They were once very popular.

<frames>
 <frame name="header" target="main" url="/header.html"/>
 <frame name="sidebar" target="main" url="/sidebar.html"/>
 <frame name="main" target="main" url="/default.html'/>
</frames>

[7mary4]

The original sharing tools, like delicious and webrings. Also, the start of blogging with small pages: memepool and kottke

[dfvalero]

😂😂😂 Visitor counter!!

[jhadenfeldt]

Rounded corners using images or border-radius.htc.

[okket]

The now offline German website im.parkverbot.de made fun of the late 90s web and its features (IFrames, Java-Applets, etc) in the style of a mail order catalog. Tagline 'Icon of the Internet! No new content since 1998!'. Sadly, most of their content does not work in modern browsers, but here is a snapshot from 2006 anyway:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060428110842/http://www.parkverbot.de/

[goodevilgenius]

I second Java applets. Before there was Flash, Java applets were the thing, and it's possible Java applets were the inspiration for the name of JavaScript.

[admbradford]

What about ALL CAPS HTML? Remember when your code used to yell at you all the time? Also, <maps>

[Grockell]

Visit Counters and Web Rings!

[TechRova]

Describe the old Web features that you remember. If you have references and links, please indicate them.

This website works better only on Internet Explorer and Netscape navigator . Many sites had them in footer

[TechRova]

Describe the old Web features that you remember. If you have references and links, please indicate them.

VB script !!!! Lots of websites used them and it's supported by Internet Explorer only

Many browser specific HTML tags , CSS properties and even some JS objects, those works only in particular browser

[AGMSR]

https://gifcities.org/

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:36 AM TechROVA [email protected] wrote:

Describe the old Web features that you remember. If you have references and links, please indicate them.

VB script !!!! Lots of websites used them and it's supported by Internet Explorer only

Many browser specific HTML tags , CSS properties and even some JS objects, those works only in particular browser

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[thomasgraham97]

Shoutboxes! i.e. https://twitter.com/WebDesignMuseum/status/1290003500081000454?s=20

[pbaris]

http://www.coppeliapique.com/rsc/js/pngFix/