Tales from Webdev Past - Cleafix × Floats × Cufon × Guestbooks × PNG Fix × More!

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about tales from web dev past — clearfix, floats, flash, cufon, guestbooks, hit counters, and more!
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Show Notes 04:28 - Float-based layouts
Clearfix
☠️ Killed by Flexbox, and then Grid

09:29 - Loading Screens:
Two websites - one flash and one HTML
Splash screen
11:22 - Hit counters
12:28 - Guestbooks
13:28 - Flash
3rd party player
Media dragged its feet FOREVER
☠️ Killed by Steve Jobs
18:46 - Fonts
The Golden Layout
Cufon / sIFR / Images of text
Typekit

☠️ Killed by font-face
24:15 - Folder-based version control
☠️ Killed by Git
26:22 - FTP
☠️ Killed by Git, then many other things
28:40 - CSS Zen Garden
CSS Zen Garden

☠️ Killed by CSS being better
32:02 - TextMate
Coda

Notepad++

Adobe GoLive

FrontPage

Macromedia / Dreamweaver

☠️ Killed by Sublime Text, then VSCode

33:58 - Sliding doors
A technique for rounded corners on buttons ☠️ Killed by CSS
35:29 - PNG Fix
☠️ Killed by the death of IE6
37:53 - 9-Panel layouts
☠️ Killed by CSS
39:20 - CSS 3 Please
CSS 3 Please

Paul Irish

☠️ Killed by modern CSS
Links Silverlight

Chris Coyier

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