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Ive been doing Web Development since about 2002. In many ways, things are not all that different today than they were 17 years ago. Many of the problems I work on in my current job are similar to those I worked on almost 2 decades ago when I first learned Javascript by making an insurance calculator for the financial services company I worked for a... t the time. But, while many of the higher-level concepts and core technologies have been around for all this time, there are numerous quirks and behaviors associated with the earlier versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and the first versions of Firefox that simply have no relevance today. Those latter pieces of useless, arcane lore are the purpose of this blog post. Here are some of the behaviors, code and bugs that I had to deal with when I was first getting started in this industry. Most of this info is so outdated that knowing this stuff is of no practical use today. But its fun to reminisce. This one makes the top of the list, since it is arguably still somewhat relevant. The marquee tag lets you easily make a box of scrolling text: This just in!! The Americans have bombed Sesame Street. There are reports of massive muppet casualties. Stay tuned for more information at the top of the hour. The CanIUse page for this one has an interesting tidbit. While this tag is non-standard and deprecated, it has universal support in all current browsers as a result of Firefox finally adding support for this tag in January, 2019 after not supporting it for 13 years! (which hasnt worked in a browser since 2013) than know about , which still works to this day. Im sure that all web developers are familiar with frames. But I dont think they all appreciate the nuances of the history around their usage in web development. First, its important to understand the problem that they were introduced to solve. Backend web-centric programming languages like PHP did not exist back in the day. There were certainly ways to use code to programmatically generate HTML mainly ...Read More