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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about tales from web dev past — clearfix, floats, flash, cufon, guestbooks, hit counters, and more! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 04:28 - Float-based layouts Clearfix ☠️ Killed by Flexbox, and then Grid 09:29 - Loading Screens: Two websites - one flash and one HTML Splash screen 11:22 - Hit counters 12:28 - Guestbooks 13:28 - Flash 3rd party player Media dragged its feet FOREVER ☠️ Killed by Steve Jobs 18:46 - Fonts The Golden Layout Cufon / sIFR / Images of text Typekit ☠️ Killed by font-face 24:15 - Folder-based version control ☠️ Killed by Git 26:22 - FTP ☠️ Killed by Git, then many other things 28:40 - CSS Zen Garden CSS Zen Garden ☠️ Killed by CSS being better 32:02 - TextMate Coda Notepad++ Adobe GoLive FrontPage Macromedia / Dreamweaver ☠️ Killed by Sublime Text, then VSCode 33:58 - Sliding doors A technique for rounded corners on buttons ☠️ Killed by CSS 35:29 - PNG Fix ☠️ Killed by the death of IE6 37:53 - 9-Panel layouts ☠️ Killed by CSS 39:20 - CSS 3 Please CSS 3 Please Paul Irish ☠️ Killed by modern CSS Links Silverlight Chris Coyier ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Fancierstudio 600 LED Light Panel Kit Wes: Allen Key Drill Bit Set Shameless Plugs Scott: React 3D and Advanced Animating React with Framer Motion - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Master Gatsby Course - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax.
0:02.8	The Podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.5	Welcome to Syntax. This is a podcast with the tastiest web development treats. Today we are going down memory lane to talk about tales from web-dev past. So we're going to talk about all of the about
0:24.0	all of the hot tech in web development that we had to use
0:29.0	and that is like totally obsoleted or killed off or not as popular anymore because Scott and I have been
0:35.6	developers for what like 15 years something like that very long time probably longer
0:41.5	than that at this point.
0:43.0	Actually I have WestBoss.com forward slash about.
0:47.2	I have been out of waking websites for 20 years.
0:49.8	Yeah.
0:50.8	And then I have the number of milliseconds I've been making websites for and it's accounting.
0:55.6	Have you been mating websites as well? Is that a thing?
0:58.9	Not been mating websites. No, that's, no, I have not.
1:04.3	When I asked on Twitter, like, what were the things from the long, long,
1:07.8	I'm like, what were the things from like 10, 15 years ago?
1:10.9	And then I realized that some of this this stuff is way older than 10 years
1:15.9	old 10 years ago was 2010 I feel like that was just yesterday anyways we are
1:19.9	sponsored by sanity which is a structured content CMS and Century, which does all of your error
1:26.3	and exception tracking in your application.
1:28.7	We'll talk about them part way through the episode.
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