Comment by timeon
3 days ago
> I remember when PHP 4 was a thing. jQuery was new and shiny. Sites were built with tables, not divs. Dreamweaver felt like a life hack. Designs were sliced in Photoshop. Databases lived in phpMyAdmin.
> It probably didn’t feel like it at the time, but looking back, those were simpler days.
jQuery was bloat, there were others like MooTools. People idealize tables but it was not just grid, it was often used as hacks as well, like weird offsets, etc. Dreamweaver produced mess. Sliced designs? "This site is optimized for 800x600"
Not saying current state is good. I just find interesting how nostalgia can distort memories even in tech.
jQuery was not bloat. Before there was prototypejs (default in RoR for a long time), with over-complicated (and slow) ruby-inspired methods, and others and jQuery was at the time a breath of fresh air and sanity. I remember Angular had several methods with jquery in the name and, if memory serves, included sizzlejs (jquery selector library).