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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Literally why I started HTML and then into programming. Had to do those sick absolute position overlays on the club pages of Neopets.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Myspace also got a number of people playing with HTML and CSS if I remember correctly. It's been years. Not sure CSS is actually even used anymore. I enjoyed web design classes back in the 2000s. Macromedia still owned Dreamweaver and it wasn't all that great, so I could still do better by hand. I haven't played around with any of it in years now, but I assume those programs have GUIs that blow away anything that can be written in notepad like back then.

If you've never trouble shot 100 pages of JavaScript in notepad because you didn't have access to other tools, you haven't had "fun" before. ...fucking nightmare. Find out you put an extra space somewhere.

The better you got though you'd narrow down finding those errors quickly, and then eventually find out a fucking free program will color code the shit and tell you to look at line 232 because it doesn't make sense

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CSS is still used. Modern web toolkits like bootstrap and tailwind can reduce or eliminate the need to write CSS explicitly. Some tools like Sass extend CSS. They all generally produce regular CSS that gets read by the browser.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

CSS is still used.

Modern CSS is pretty different to MySpace-era CSS though. Floats are practically never used any more, absolute positioning is a lot rarer than it used to be, and flexbox and CSS grid have made making page layouts far easier. There's also many things we can do with pure CSS now that used to require JS.

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