That said I've missed all the things mentioned. And I don't miss it. Days where IE4, NN4 and a huge margins of stealing browsers existed all at once. Nobody was willing to take the literal hours to download a new browser over dialup. Hell, people rarely ran windows updates.
I still remember IE 5.0 that was on the office 2000 and Windows 2000 disks (not ME). It broke the legacy interface for manipulation of select controls. 5.0.1 fixed that, but it was too late.
I remember when IE8's JSON parsee broke with an error you can't catch if you used the prototype library or similar.
IE4, NN4 and IE5/NN5 had different, largely incompatible interface for dynamic elements. Want a form to show a field based on another field selection, client side and cross browser, omg it was a pain.
Stack diagrams and giant charts, so much fun.
People complain about the packages and how painful it is today... I'll keep what we have.
While I think HTMX does a better job for many things today, I'll still live text more than front end web development in the mood-late 90s.
>I still remember IE 5.0 that was on the office 2000 and Windows 2000 disks (not ME). It broke the legacy interface for manipulation of select controls. 5.0.1 fixed that, but it was too late.
Do you happen to remember more details about this. In particular, what method worked for the IE 5.0 that was broken?
I develop a framework that aims for universal browser support, and I'd like to account for this.
It was just IE 5.0.0.. there was an offer interface and the new dom interface. IE5 initially only supported the new one.
I honestly wouldn't even worry about it today. I don't even recall what the method was. Both probably still work in current browsers. The bigger manipulation and the older interface.
That said I've missed all the things mentioned. And I don't miss it. Days where IE4, NN4 and a huge margins of stealing browsers existed all at once. Nobody was willing to take the literal hours to download a new browser over dialup. Hell, people rarely ran windows updates.
I still remember IE 5.0 that was on the office 2000 and Windows 2000 disks (not ME). It broke the legacy interface for manipulation of select controls. 5.0.1 fixed that, but it was too late.
I remember when IE8's JSON parsee broke with an error you can't catch if you used the prototype library or similar.
IE4, NN4 and IE5/NN5 had different, largely incompatible interface for dynamic elements. Want a form to show a field based on another field selection, client side and cross browser, omg it was a pain.
Stack diagrams and giant charts, so much fun.
People complain about the packages and how painful it is today... I'll keep what we have.
While I think HTMX does a better job for many things today, I'll still live text more than front end web development in the mood-late 90s.