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Oh good times, the screen gamma issue got me many times back then, as I was the super odd kid on a Mac in the late 90's (father was in education). I'd pull my beautify crafted table-soup site up on a friends PC later and wonder why all the colors were all wacky!
You bet, Fun post and writeup, took me a bit down memory lane. I built several sites with nested table-based layouts, 1x1 transparent gif files set to strange widths to get layouts to force certain sizes. Little tricks with repeating gradient backgrounds for fancy 'beveled' effects. Under construction GIFs, page counters, GUESTBOOKS!, Photoshop drop-shadows on everything. All the things, fond-times. One or two I haven't touched in 20 years, but keep online for my own time-capsule memory :)
Well this was interesting. As someone who was actually building similar website in the late 90's I threw this into the Opus 4.5. Note the original author is wrong about the original site however:
"The Space Jam website is simple: a single HTML page, absolute positioning for every element, and a tiling starfield GIF background.".
This is not true, the site is built using tables, not positioning at all, CSS wasn't a thing back then...
Here was its one-shot attempt at building the same type of layout (table based) with a screenshot and assets as input: https://i.imgur.com/fhdOLwP.png
Nice, thanks for the link here
Thanks for this! Will look into..
We have a sass service where many of our clients have a public facing 'website' where they have a contact form for their visitors. We have google captcha v2 on that form, which is easily bypassed. So spammers are submitting the form bypassing the captcha with typical form spam. We send all of the contact messages to our users via Mailgun as a 'new contact message.' Our users get these spam messages not really realizing they are from their own sites (as they just see the spam in the email) and flag/mark them all as such.
I had this exact same thought..
Thanks for info here. Definitely will look into them. I'll also have to look into if MG has some webhook for complaints, as we're also now suddenly super paranoid about that metric.
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While not on that list my channel has lots of css related content: https://YouTube.com/FollowAndrew
Check out my css grid video. It’s the best you’ll find!
Agree with many comments that most channels are geared towards beginnerS (mine included), as when folks get more advanced they tend to then use stackoverflow/blogs to find solutions to very specific problems
I built my first site in the 90's too (before CSS)! I've been in higher education lately, but have a YouTube channel with mostly CSS related content (both beginner & advanced). Check that out if you're interested in some great starter learning content for CSS and you prefer video format: https://www.youtube.com/followandrew
Did @johnboiles get the 10k bounty that was put up (I think by Shopify CEO) for this plugin?
You’re thinking of CSS Logical Properties, and they are super cool: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Logical...
Join my room to watch me teach CSS Grid: https://dj3d.io/room/mhZrpfnH Fun site!
I have a channel that deals with lots of HTML, CSS & UI tips. I'd watch this CSS Grid video, as it's proved very helpful for many: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFDLHNm5KQ
Pricing?
That’s a pretty good question actually, and difficult to address. I try and push new concepts/tech as a way of education on what’s coming.
For edu channels it seems it’s a balance of teaching core concepts and also teaching what’s “popular” to keep folks interested.
You have to make a cutoff at some point with caniuse, as I suppose to get 100% coverage we’d still be doing table-based layouts or float hacks. The old adage of “know your audience” will eventually dictate the tech.
I’ve been working on my YouTube educational channel html/css/design (https://youtube.com/FollowAndrew) for a bit now. Pickup is slow, but it’s been fun helping a greater audience learn new skills!
I’ve had great feedback on my css grid crash course video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFDLHNm5KQ
I did a pretty popular comprehensive video tutorial on CSS grid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFDLHNm5KQ
Best 40 minutes you'll spend if you want to learn CSS Grid! :) First 5 mins are a bit of history, with grid starting at the 5 min. mark.
I did a simple tutorial on YouTube that illustrates the basic methods for the hand done 2.5D parallax effect in Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giE4SuC9qWc
Great write up. Can a web component author create one in such a way that the inner shadow dom styles ARE editable/styleable by the outer or person implementing the custom component?
I put together a fairly comprehensive video tutorial for those interested in learning CSS grid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFDLHNm5KQ
It's definitely a bit of a challenge to 're-think' layouts for those used to floats / css positioning / flex (like myself)
In this case it's a bug, as I'm not trying to 'disable' the mouse, but track scrolling and then make the menu 'stick' to the header when the user scrolls down the page. A common design pattern which increases usability quite a bit.
Thanks all! Looks like it's Chrome (was able to reproduce there). Will fix when I'm not at work. ;)
Oh strange, can’t reproduce. Are you on mobile or desktop? Browser?
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