[toxican]

It's funny how eternal the IE6/7/8 struggle felt at the time and now it's essentially ancient history. All that knowledge of how to coax CSS into doing things cross-browser circa 2004-2010 is basically useless to me now. Those years were my HS hobby -> college -> career transition period and it's amazing that I didn't give up because of how god damn convoluted basic frontend development was back then. And it was so discouraging because you could do things by the book (er, spec) and they'd work flawlessly in Firefox, but look assbackwards in IE6.

I love/hate that era so much.

[101008]

I agree with this feeling 100%.

It's hard to describe I think. It was a mess, but a mess in a smaller/less convuloted place? Much less frameworks, options, etc.

I love that era so much. Web development back in the 90/00s was fun.

[madaxe_again]

It was, until it really, really wasn’t.

Sure, I miss the magical cowboy days, when it was entirely normal to write a ream of spaghetti that did something incredible, but I really, really don’t miss the “our customers are complaining that the site looks bad on IE4 at 640x480 in 16 colours and the purple gorilla has to go why did you add it” calls.

Oh, and IE for Mac. Back then one kept a bottle of scotch and a pistol in one’s desk.

[nikanj]

Not to worry, we'll eventually have a similar experience moving from Chrome to whatever comes next. Their market share is in the IE6 digits now, and Pepperidge farm remembers how advanced and sophisticated IE6 was considered when it launched.

[robin_reala]

IE6 was 95%+ at its peak, Chrome is barely at 60%+ if you take iOS Safari into account.

[h4ch1]

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.MotionBlur(strength=100) my beloved