^The links about the the old web I posted before state that there's a search engine, wiby, that merely indexes oldschool websites without java scripts.
So maybe it makes sense to consider this. 🙂
Edit: For testing purposes, I recommend testing the final retro website on things like Lynx, Arachne, Dillo and old mobile devices (Palm PDAs, Pocket PCs/Windows CE handhelds, Psion handhelds, Nokia communicators and so on).
If you wish to support old mobile devices especially, then there's WML markup language.
It used to be around in late 90s/early 2000s when mobile Internet featured WAP.
Here in western world, at least. Japan had used i-mode back then, which also had interesting history.
Speaking of Japan, it's about the only place were the 90s Internet still exists more or less.
Historically, Japanese users are interested in specs, stats, in all kinds of information.
That's why their websites haven't been dumped down so much, but contain a lot of text.
The iPhone and American media/commercial world hasn’t done as much damage over there as it had done here in western world, in short.
They also had flip-phones for much longer, if memory serves. But that's true for Asia in general, maybe.
The smartphone didn't dominate everything so much as it did here, in short.
IrDA port (absent on smartphones) was used to exchange digital business cards, also.
Speaking under correction, though.
soggi wrote on 2024-11-23, 19:26:
Hm!? I just contradicted that it's mostly not about platforms but about browsers (and/or their engines). Fonts are ONE exception (as said above), GUI elements on a website usually not and the browsers GUI elements don't belong to the website. It doesn't make much difference if you run f.e. FF2 on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, BSD or Solaris - except the font(s) and maybe the charset (therefor I recommended to use the CSS mentioned above and UTF-8 for high compatibility).
It's fine, I just meant to say that life of a web designer is hart.
Many things seem trivial, until you have to work with end users/non-technical people. Then things go down hill.
Up to the the type of client that does print out web pages, page per page and tells you that the links aren’t clickable.
The aforementioned example with the centimetres was real, by the way.
There was an agency for typists who's boss asked to have certain elements on websites moved/changed in centimetres and millimetres (!) rather than pixels.
As if it was an absolute unit that's not related to screen size or resolution..
So yeah, believe it or not but such people do exist out there. 😰
Not seldomly, your clients ask for the impossible, I had the joy to work a few months for such clients until I was feeling totally dead inside of myself.
And these people/clients don't really care if the looks of the headline (font), the radio button or input form is the result of the OS' native GUI elements.
They demand that things look exactly same everywhere else as they see it on their own PC/Mac/etc.
Technical reasons don't interest them, they simply demand you to make it work that way.
That's the point you would have to get creative and try to apply skins to radio buttons, scroll bars etc. somehow by using scripts and other tricks.
And there's where plug-ins and the relevance of peculiarities of other platforms may come into play.
(There's a good reason the browser's agent string does carry version number, but also platform.)
Additionally, writing an E-Mail news letter in plain HTML format is very hard to do manually (even with help of FrontPage).
There are specialized web generators now that do it. Gratefully, I must say. 🙏
Their generated HTML code is a totall mess of encapsulated spaghetti code, but it's necessary in order to met the demands of the client.
They're more of a browser test than ACID tests could ever be, I think.
HTML news letters (HTML E-mails) are somewhat hardcore, IMHO. 🙁
Edited.
Edit: A quick elaboration here: The problem with HTML news letters is that the sender (application, server etc) does demand for plain HTML pages.
Things like CSS or JavaScript or ActionScript are being refused.
So you have to resort to frames, tables, utilizing quirks and one pixel dummy bitmaps to create desired layout. It's a mess. 😢
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