Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

6 comments

• nness 25 minutes ago
  Forever burnt into my mind is PNG alpha work-arounds in IE:

      filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='image.png');

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  • bbx 3 minutes ago
    Ha, fantastic line that one. Transparent pngs caused so much unnecessary trouble in IE6, it was very annoying, and limited our options as graphic designers.
• intrasight 17 minutes ago
  Lots of mud at the base of the wall. I think it's a good sign. It'll be a bad sign if this list does't grow.

  I do bemoan the loss of the <?xml-stylesheet?> processing instruction and the JavaScript XSLTProcessor API.
• cprecioso 1 hour ago
  I'd only add the Safari Pinned Tabs `meta` tag (https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...), which had you define a simple black and white SVG. This image would get used when a user pinned your tab in Safari, in color when active and black when inactive.
• Semaphor 1 hour ago
  Ohh, conditional comments. We had so many IE holdouts on our site, I think only around 2021 I removed the last IE specific fallbacks, and I think some conditional comments were a thing until 2020.

  I’m not sure when I removed a bunch of `msapplication-` fields, but probably after 2021 ;)

  I guess I can remove `apple-touch-` and `application-name` stuff next…
• RobotToaster 45 minutes ago
  GeoURLs seem like they would still be useful today.
• LoganDark 1 hour ago
  Love the ruby tags on Chinese text!!