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> They wanted the website to "feel" more like a real newspaper, including things like incorporating custom layout, design and other elements on the website. Explaining the limitations of HTML, CSS and Javascript was a bit ... frustrating for both sides.

Did they demand "page turning animation" each time user clicks "next page" in the pagination?

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I think 15 years ago the main misunderstanding would be that web pages have to able to flow around the dimensions of the window that the user has chosen. You can't fix things in particular places as newspaper people would be used to.

I imagine today people are more familiar with that concept.

>I imagine today people are more familiar with that concept.

You... would be surprised. I've been asked to implement "pixel perfect" designs on mid-six figure projects, and explaining that that isn't how the web works can be fruitless when their background is in traditional media.

Oh boy, the "pixel perfect" storm period couple of years ago. Luckily I waiter it over on cozy position without a need of looking for a job.

In the early days of the web, lots of print-originating online outlets, did.

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