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by trevormcneal 1611 days ago
what this site got wrong is just "remember jquery ?", this was a modern thing back then and almost nobody used. Would make more sense "remember tables for everything ?"
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Yep, and 1x1 gifs for sizing certain unsize-able elements.

I'm building a web site currently, after a looong break from web development. It's almost unbelievable how much cleaner HTML, DOM and JS have gotten. It's more of a pleasure (only relatively to the previous eras) building pages and you actually don't need frameworks.