Because the 90s were frikkin' awesome! 📠
Yes, amigos, this is the boilerplate for a Website created using framesets, and archaic, terrible way of doing sites that was actually quite popular in the 90s, before css made its debut.
My objective: preserve a 90s frameset site, using modern tools, but not detouring from the original purpose.
Enjoy.
- Q- WTF, bro.
- A- Did you know that there's a frikkin doctype for framesets? No, really, and just to save you the trouble to click to another site, it's
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
- A- Did you know that there's a frikkin doctype for framesets? No, really, and just to save you the trouble to click to another site, it's
- Q- Why do you want to bring this shit back to life? It should be dead where it belongs.
- A- I believe this method should be documented in Github with many comments, and guides. Not to revive it, but for, ahem, historical documentation purposes.
- Q- Are you going to make this intentionally lame and/or funny?
- Nah. I think it can be lame on its own merits. But I want to use the best technology available in 1999 to complete this project.
- Q- Are you going to lay it out with tables and outdated tags?
- Probably. I don't know if I will use tags like
<marquee>or<blink>. Framesets are aceptable in some kind of HTML4 flavor, so I have to study what is legal and what isn't.
- Probably. I don't know if I will use tags like
- Q- Are you going to use modern tools like jQuery or Normalizr?
- Probably. As long as the final product remains within its original educational purpose.
- The only rule I got for this boilerplate is that it has to be compatible with all browsers available in late 1999.
- Q- Can I help?
- Sure. Fork it and let me see what you got.
- One thing I will like to do is to collect infamous gifs from the late 90s. If you can help, you are welcome to join the fun.