Found this snapshot of the state of webdevelopment in 2012 in one of my old self-study notes/blog drafts. What progress since! Do you remember?

Haha pure gold

Ye olde Web

I remember the days before CSS... Fuck I'm old.

Internet Explorer... 15% and declining...
REST IN PAIN mf 😈

@sariel I feel the same, or before js, old netscape 2 and webcrawler search engine.

Isn't... Isn't 1em just "the font size"? How can the default font size be 0.875 em?!

@atheist Yes, but due to smaller screen resolutions 0.875em was advised back then.
I only know because that was at the time I was reading a lot of independent/ magazine webdesign blogs.

@Voxera aww fuck yeah, Netscape was the shit back in the day!

Fuck IE forever!

@webketje So... The font size was advised to be 0.875 of the font size?

AKA

let font_size = 0.875 * font_size

🤔

@atheist No like:

var fontSizeAdvisedByMagazinesAndDevblogsIn2012 = 0.875 * browserDefault.

We didn't have let back then ;)

Firefox had 30% market share? 🤯

I guess that that was before Mozilla fired all their devs though lol

@Ezard well, it was when the main competition was IE and safari.

That list is from when chrome was just overtaking firefox.

But it was firefox that started to break the IE dominance.

Before FF, IE had about 95+ % of the browser market.

@Voxera *opera quietly sobbing in the corner*

@sariel opera pioneered many things like tabs but I think the fact that they for a long time required a license to run and then to skip ads they got sidelined, a free IE was just good enough to be preferred by users.

Mozilla not only was free like IE but they also targeted the developers with very good features and the developers then marketed it to users. And IE at the time was already making devs angry du to no updates.

So a new dev friendly free browser that was also faster and standards compliant was just the right thing at the right time.

I know a former colleague lived opera.