I remember that Publisher could make web pages too. How? Since it was supposed to be WYSIWYG it exported the entire thing as a single image and used an html image map for the links.
I don't think I can agree with that, and I'm a pretty agreeable chap.
In the days when people actually cared about the html layout and readability, FP spammed everything hugely, and inserted a lot of terrible cruft. Inventing zillions of new tags for everything, even when the user just wanted to italicise a word. Use a tag? No! We'll invent a whole new style class and embed it in the headers.
A few years ago I rather stupidly agreed to take over hosting of a website for someone that was dying. It had been written with FP and it took me months to de-cruft it using a lot of regexp and scrifting. (Some 8,000 images and around 2000 .html files).
23 Comments
Malix@sopuli.xyz · 53 pts · 1y
nice.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 1y
code comments were honestly the best and i hate how nobody does this anymore in the era of generators.
mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud · 1 pts · 1y
thats cool, but it doesnt give you ascii are when you curl the site
Malix@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
huh? or did I miss something here?
edit: or are plain-text curlable websites a feature I'm not aware of? Or curl'ers use some striptags feature?
mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud · 3 pts · 1y
I have code on my site that returns ASCII are, only if you curl it.
At work my site had used as a working test
curl horwood.bizmorgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 1y
wow i miss this era so much, bring back the rotating and blinking gifs, marquees and quaint color palettes!
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Don't forget the rolling view counter and the guestbook!
Azzk1kr@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y
cgi-bin.. Shudder
pythonesque@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
It is still out there, I have several customers depending on it. 15+ years stuff running over sco unix. Also stone-age php for good measure...
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 5 pts · 1y
If you want to see more sites like this, check out neocities.
bazzett@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Also, https://nekoweb.org/.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 1 pts · 1y
Hey another cool one! Thanks!
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
very cool thank you! 😊
notabot@piefed.social · 16 pts · 1y
That has unironicaly made me nostalgic for the days when the web was a place of experimentation, joy and just a bit of crazy.
Photuris@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1y
unironically that era of the web was best.
also netscape composer > frontpage :3
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
This is such a joy to behold
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y
I remember that Publisher could make web pages too. How? Since it was supposed to be WYSIWYG it exported the entire thing as a single image and used an html image map for the links.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 6 pts · 1y
THNICC
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
digdilem@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
I don't think I can agree with that, and I'm a pretty agreeable chap.
In the days when people actually cared about the html layout and readability, FP spammed everything hugely, and inserted a lot of terrible cruft. Inventing zillions of new tags for everything, even when the user just wanted to italicise a word. Use a tag? No! We'll invent a whole new style class and embed it in the headers.
A few years ago I rather stupidly agreed to take over hosting of a website for someone that was dying. It had been written with FP and it took me months to de-cruft it using a lot of regexp and scrifting. (Some 8,000 images and around 2000 .html files).
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Ah! The glory days!
Im_old@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I remember dreamweaver having plugins to remove frontpage bloated html
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
now we have ckeditor plugins to remove word bloat
AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
. . . i love this