I wish I could upvote this comment twice. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.
I recall, in about 2010, hiring a young engineer to help with small marketing pages at an agency in New York City. His work was pixel-perfect at a time when we’d spend days just trying to get things looking reasonable in IE6. He was fast. It was incredible.
He was gone for the day when a last-minute change came in, so another dev went to update his latest work. Turns out he had been exporting the entire designs (from Photoshop, of course, no Sketch or Figma back then) as a BACKGROUND IMAGE and then ABSOLUTELY POSITIONING form fields.
I thought it was brilliant. No one else but the boss agreed. Testing for all of his work had been flawless cross-browser. It just didn’t work well on mobile. But he didn’t have to center things in a div - it was all smoke and mirrors.
I helped implement Mermaid as a part of Apollo GraphQL’s public documentation to address the “docs as versioned artifact with code” challenge. It’s a win, but still another Yak to shave since public docs are a product, not the source code for the internal teams’ use.
I love the idea and simplicity, thank you for sharing!
Small bit of feedback: would it be possible to make the UI a bit more mobile friendly? Or, alternatively, is there an API that others could use to build different interfaces?
Again, this is a Thing That Should Exist, so thank you for bringing it into the world.
I’m curious about what and how crawling is done. I did a search for my own site and didn’t find it (it’s a redirect to another site, which I’m sure doesn’t help). What’s being indexed right now (out of curiosity, not trying to game SEO - that’s why I’m not mentioning the site I searched for here.)
I recall, in about 2010, hiring a young engineer to help with small marketing pages at an agency in New York City. His work was pixel-perfect at a time when we’d spend days just trying to get things looking reasonable in IE6. He was fast. It was incredible.
He was gone for the day when a last-minute change came in, so another dev went to update his latest work. Turns out he had been exporting the entire designs (from Photoshop, of course, no Sketch or Figma back then) as a BACKGROUND IMAGE and then ABSOLUTELY POSITIONING form fields.
I thought it was brilliant. No one else but the boss agreed. Testing for all of his work had been flawless cross-browser. It just didn’t work well on mobile. But he didn’t have to center things in a div - it was all smoke and mirrors.
I miss those days sometimes.