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Because things were much worse in the beforetime
What, you didn't enjoy slicing up images and arranging them in borderless tables?
Eh the software handled all that. Rounded corners tho…
Just a small gif (as png didn't exist/widely supported) that had the rounded corner. Then if someone wanted to change the color or background you would have to redo all the images. Fun fun.
Nah it's fine, we'll just do the whole website in Shockwave.
WYSIWYG editors were evil
The software? Are you talking about Adobe ~~Dreamweaver~~ Dreamcrusher or something?
My money's on Microsoft Frontpage
What a catastrophic attempt at a GUI website editor.
Imagine how I felt when they decided to teach us that in school, when I was already familiar with Dreamweaver... And notepad
Please indicate where IE touched you.
*gestures broadly at entire body
I put on my trenchcoat and fedora hat.
In my faux column
Before 1996?