Responsive design out of the box? Were you actually there? Back in 2000 you could make a career out of scripting browser polyfills or "DHTML".
Responsive design out of the box? Were you actually there? Back in 2000 you could make a career out of scripting browser polyfills or "DHTML".
Quite. Or differences in the box-model, appending weird symbols to CSS to target specific browsers, adding zoom:1, praying you didn’t have to support IE6….
That doesn't seem relevant to responsive design? HTML and CSS are definitely responsive out of the box, but OTOH I remember how many designers of that era thought responsiveness was a bug and asked devs to add width:920px to body...
CSS, especially the box model, was not consistent across browsers.
True. Does not prevent the design from being responsive. Even with no CSS at all a design is responsive unless you specifically choose to break that
Right but how would you even display a vertical menu back then? `float: left` was rather bad, so you went back to using tables[0]. Good luck making these responsive.
[0]: and to using dozens of images sliced to fit your table cells, for that cool hover effect as well as round corners. :-)
Why would documents have menus? Menus are for applications.
And there was nothing wrong with tables for layout, especially back then when the alternatives were very brittle.