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Vale
@vale.rocks

Sometimes you look at an old HTML document and see some weird tags and snippets from bygone eras. I've complied many legacy HTML bits I've noticed and documented what they were and why there were present. Many of them are rather obscure. Satisfy your curiosity: vale.rocks/posts/html-r...

vale.rocksAntiquated HTML Snippets and ArtefactsOverviews of the very many snippets of code that were once commonly included on websites to address specific cases with certain technologies, browsers, operating systems, or extensions. Fragments dating back to the days of Internet Explorer and Netscape, to more modern bits that are nonetheless obsolete.

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Rouven
@adorable-squid.ch

wow, i've optimized my projects with many of those tags. i didn't understand what they did but it felt like progress... good riddance!

CM30
@cm30.bsky.social

God this brings back a lot of memories. Still remember the days of frame busters and X-UA-Compatible and IE conditional comments…

Terence Eden
@edent.tel

I'm amazed how many of these I remember! Reasonably confident I don't use any of them nowadays but kinda dreading checking.

Vale
@vale.rocks

I wouldn't dread it. I always find it most satisfying to banish old and obsolete code from my sites. Especially when they're easy to identify and can be removed cleanly, as these HTML snippets can be. There is this nice neatness to it.

Vale
@vale.rocks

This was supposed to just be a short bit of background research for my series of browser history posts. There are rabbit holes in my rabbit holes!

Vale
@vale.rocks

I did consider including meta keywords, but they're still very loosely relevant in some cases. I believe Baidu, Sogou, Sogou, and Yandex still use them (albeit very lightly) for weighting. I also believe some niche independent search engines use them too, as well as some web ring projects.