[DaiPlusPlus]

> Anyone remember the hacks for drop shadows and rounded corners?

Originally it was kinda simple: just a 3x3 <table> with stretched images in the outer cells, then <div>-itis. Fortunately we rarely needed 9 nested <div> elements - a common trick was to create a 2000x2000px-sized PNG containing the top-left, top, and left-edge border and then another for the other side and make that a background image - the only problem was the lack of support for transparency and how IE would get PNG colors wrong for some reason until IE8 unless you altered the gamma ( https://salman-w.blogspot.com/2011/03/png-color-problem-in-i... )

[edgyquant]

I remember building rounded containers this way, it’s been so long I had forgotten how much border-radius has saved us from those little hells.

[karlshea]

And that was around the time the CMS was really getting mainstream (instead of Frontpage). So then you had to go digging through a million templates trying to wrap the right thing with your 3x3 table.

[DaiPlusPlus]

It was fun breaking sites with XSS vulnerabilities (i.e. most of them) where entering </table> into an unsanitized user-content editor would break the entire website layout.