[gabereiser]

Yup, no grid, no flex, the only way to ensure your chopped up photoshop design would work was with tables.

Now we don’t use images for everything, we use CSS/iconography/typography/styles. Back then though we didn’t have a whole lot of options in CSS so we used images EVERYWHERE! Drop shadow, that’s a transparent png image. Gradients, jpgs. Animations, gifs. Want to play a video? Real player or flash. It was crude, it was hard, and it was a compatibly nightmare.

[5560675260]

Can't say that I still have nightmares about slicing out all those decorative elements out of a PSD file, but I absolutely don't miss that era.

[petepete]

I was explaining how we used to add drop shadows on web pages to one of the younger members of our team a month or two ago and they found it hilarious. An image sliced up into several bits, a table (often embedded in another table) and various other hacks to make everything line up nicely versus a single line of CSS now.

What a time to be alive.

[mdp2021]

> a compatibly nightmare

With some "giving up", "stopping early" and appending a "...Best viewed on".

[gabereiser]

Or worse, showing a splash screen that said to please use chrome. Ugh…

[rjh29]

I remember doing rounded corners with images inside a 3x3 table!