#Development #Guides
The HTML ‘cite’ element · What belongs in a ‘cite’ element, and does it matter? https://ilo.im/163l7s

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#Citation #HTML #HTML4 #HTML5 #WebStandards #WebDev #Frontend

A must visit in 2025 https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.htm

All that you'd expect from a genuine 1996 website: frames, source maps for images, and more. Delicious.

#legacy #html4

Not everyone is on board with Web3, but browsing the average ham radio website, it seems like they haven’t even heard of Web 2.0.

EDIT: This isn’t to say those websites are bad. Sure, they may be hard to read on mobile or a 4K screen, but content is king!

#HamRadio #RetroComputing #HTML4 #NetscapeNavigator4Life

#Development #Guides
The HTML ‘b’ element · Is the element still useful in current practice? https://ilo.im/1608z3

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#Content #SemanticHTML #Accessibility #ScreenReader #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #HTML5 #HTML4

I started thinking about the vintage web and web rings while looking through some old apps and then trying to get a browser to run under Mac OS 7.5.5 in Basilisk II just to verify that my old website works with older browsers.

(Spoiler Alert!) It’s kinda broken. I switched from inline attributes for styling to using inline CSS, so some pages had backgrounds and no gaudy blue outlines, and some didn’t. Then I got sucked into installing a period appropriate QuickTime. Pro started in 3.0 and the key I purchased apparently doesn’t work on it. 🙃 Had to try a couple of keys listed elsewhere, but it’s nice being able to watch the videos I have on my website again.

Well, here I am adding bgcolor and border attributes to HTML tags like a My First Webpage coder. 🥰

#VintageWeb #BasiliskII #MacOS7 #NetscapeNavigator #QuickTime #HTML4 #CSS2 (probably)

💌Simonschreibt Newsletter 2.0💌
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Subscribers receive a welcome-mail with images and GIFs showing my first baby steps in programming, art and #gamedev starting in ~1995 - A time without internet but with heavy 🖥 and slow 💾.

#qbasic #pascal #html4 #netscapeComposer

@nblr Diesbezüglich hat sich im letzten Jahrzehnt offenbar generell viel weiterentwickelt. #JavaScript kann jetzt nativ viel wofür du vorher #jQuery brauchtest. und #HTML5 ist sowieso einfach nur ZUCKER, wenn du vorher nur #HTML4 kanntest :)

I'd love it to look like the old site too, just not.... the terrifyingly awful PHP coding I did ( I used a lot of text files to manage all the content). I really should put it up on github and let people laugh at it... #php #html4 #nestedtables

@thomas
Ach ja..die Pythonbefehle nehm ich von der Startseite wieder runter.
#HTML4

Fixed some XSS vulnerabilities on my 10+ years old homepages :blobpats: #PHP #HTML4 #VanillaJS

Quand j’ouvre l’inspecteur et que je tombe sur ce genre de code, j’ai toujours un peu l’impression d’être une sorte d’archéologue qui découvre des vestiges d’une ancienne civilisation :

« Oh regardez, d’authentiques balises <font> parfaitement conservées ! Fascinant… » 🧐

#HTML4

i hope our @twovoyagers won't mind my sharing this lovely piece of theirs, a light concise and fun delightfully dry-cynical #history of #HTML from its early-mid #1990s specification and onward thru to #HTML4 of year #1998

https://twovoyagers.com/devel/html-2.html

#90s #w3c #www #http #retrotech

Been a while since I've last seen an online #HTML4 website with legacy and deprecated `<frameset>` in source code. I wonder when it will be finally unsupported in browsers.