That has unironicaly made me nostalgic for the days when the web was a place of experimentation, joy and just a bit of crazy.
We have lost our way
unironically that era of the web was best.
also netscape composer > frontpage :3
This is such a joy to behold
I remember that Publisher could make web pages too. How? Since it was supposed to be WYSIWYG it exported the entire thing as a single image and used an html image map for the links.
frontpage used to be unironically good.
I don't think I can agree with that, and I'm a pretty agreeable chap.
In the days when people actually cared about the html layout and readability, FP spammed everything hugely, and inserted a lot of terrible cruft. Inventing zillions of new
<style>
tags for everything, even when the user just wanted to italicise a word. Use a
<i>
tag? No! We'll invent a whole new style class and embed it in the headers.
A few years ago I rather stupidly agreed to take over hosting of a website for someone that was dying. It had been written with FP and it took me months to de-cruft it using a lot of regexp and scrifting. (Some 8,000 images and around 2000 .html files).
frontpage could be used as an IDE, rather than just a WYSIWYG editor. it was decent at that IMO. and that was probably 15 years ago at least.
THNICC
Ah! The glory days!
. . . i love this
I remember dreamweaver having plugins to remove frontpage bloated html
nice.
code comments were honestly the best and i hate how nobody does this anymore in the era of generators.
thats cool, but it doesnt give you ascii are when you curl the site
huh? or did I miss something here?
edit: or are plain-text curlable websites a feature I'm not aware of? Or curl'ers use some striptags feature?