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It's wild how much JS and old HTML/CSS hacks I can replace with just a few lines of CSS grid, native CSS animations, and the popover attribute…

Charles Chadwick

@chadwickauthor.bsky.social

16 Jan 2025

I saw a post once that said "Developing for IE6 was a lot like Woodstock. Nobody can explain it, you just had to be there". I'm so glad those days are long over.

Kent Brewster

@kentbrew.com

16 Jan 2025

Spent a lot of time at Yahoo making sure things ran on IE52, because it was the best free browser available to people who either could not or would not pay for OSX. So many scrollbar issues....

Chris Morrell

@cmorrell.com

It's wild how many hours of my life used to be spent browser testing, adding conditional comments or using CSS syntax hacks (star hack? backslash hack?) to code around little quirks. Nowadays, I maybe have to worry about that stuff once or twice a year at most…

16/1/25, 6:07 pm0 reposts1 like

Kent Brewster

@kentbrew.com

16 Jan 2025

At Y! we had a double-wide cubicle full of various beige boxes running various OS and browser versions. Prior to the 2006 redesign everything had to work on everything, all the way down to Netscape 4.79.