Wow, I knew this was there but hadn't opened the console before. Quite the throwback. <center>? <nobr>? <font>?! Neat.
I'd never seen a <map> tag either: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
I'd never seen a <map> tag either: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
Hand selecting x,y points was all the rage in the mid 90's.
Who needs HTML? Just create the layout in photoshop, export the whole thing to a flat image, and map all the links...
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for better or worse i'd say there was a whole year i made websites using nothing but the map tag.
It is always a good idea to learn about old technologies. Probably the most eloquent reasoning why came from Feynman's "Know how to solve every problem that has been solved."
With the exception of the startup I did, I would characterize most of my experience as a developer in life as working with legacy code. It gets a bad reputation, but at the same time I now have a lot of insight.
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