The bad old days

Cleaning off my files on my ISP as I’m likely to be moving my sites when I move my self, and I found this:

http://www.p90.net/mockups/rev_0906/

It’s a DHTML mockup of a website that was never launched. As far as I can tell, it’ll only work on MSIE, but I’m looking on a Mac, you might have better luck on the Windows side of things. OTOH, it may have been completely broken by MSIE 6. I was pulling all-nighters trying to get my business off the ground when September 11th happened.

Part of me is really glad not to be doing any client-side programming any more. Whenever my boss wants a pull-down menu for a site we grab something off the shelf for $20 instead of putting a few thousand dollars of development time into it. Of course, they’re usually bloatware and slow our sites down so badly that they won’t load on anything slower than a T1, but on the other hand, they usually run on most of the browsers we throw at them.

Still, I gotta admit I smile with a little pride at those green arrows for scrolling up and down. They aren’t perfect, but they do work, don’t they?

And even though I used the heinous “frameset to make the page fit a particular pixel size” trick, the pages work outside the frameset too. A little tweaking and this site could run without frames.

http://www.p90.net/mockups/rev_0906/history.html

See?

I think I need to make another version where the text fades out at the top and bottom. Screw Flash. My version is readable in Lynx.