▲ 740 ▼ Websites: Then vs Now (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by trespasser69@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 80 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) divs were added in the late 90's.... that is not what I'd call early internet permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I mean, it may be subjective, but Internet was open to public in '93, and divs were specced in '97. It was more of a joke anyway. The layouts were often tables long after divs if I'm not mistaken permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago Yeah, definitely subjective, but to me the early days of the web were before HTML 2 - so up to 1995. And yeah, so many tables for a long time... Mostly because it was a bit messy to work with and had limitations, not to mention browser support requirements and a pretty fast moving sets of specs... It was fun though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I mean, it may be subjective, but Internet was open to public in '93, and divs were specced in '97. It was more of a joke anyway. The layouts were often tables long after divs if I'm not mistaken permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago Yeah, definitely subjective, but to me the early days of the web were before HTML 2 - so up to 1995. And yeah, so many tables for a long time... Mostly because it was a bit messy to work with and had limitations, not to mention browser support requirements and a pretty fast moving sets of specs... It was fun though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago Yeah, definitely subjective, but to me the early days of the web were before HTML 2 - so up to 1995. And yeah, so many tables for a long time... Mostly because it was a bit messy to work with and had limitations, not to mention browser support requirements and a pretty fast moving sets of specs... It was fun though. permalink fedilink source parent
