I always appreciated getting to put the "Valid HTML" and "Valid CSS" badges on my websites back in the day. There was some odd pride in having super clean/strict HTML.
I'm considering doing this again for my retro blog, since I'd like it to be viewable in old browsers (IE6, Firefox 2, etc.).
> since I'd like it to be viewable in old browsers (IE6, Firefox 2, etc.)
You SHOULD only distribute your website over TLS 1.2 or later, which locks out IE<11 and Firefox<27.
(I will not engage in any discussion about the truth of this SHOULD, since I know it to be sometimes mildly controversial and the subject has been done to death; if you’re not familiar with the arguments, searching should find them easily enough.)
Indeed! I think I'd like to host over TLS v1.3 for modern browsers, but offer plain HTTP for old browsers.
I'm developing a toy static site generator and plan to output nice strict HTML for all clients. Maybe even with the little W3C buttons at the bottom. :)
So people would use those as a starting point and customize them. Why geocities picked those dimensions? Not sure. They are in a <td> with a width of 120.
Netscape made a popular button with these dimensions in 1995 that everyone used as a basis to riff off of. I don't know if there were specific motivations for those exact dimensions by the original designer.
I'm guessing that the reason that the vertical height is 31 instead of 32 is that having the vertical height be an odd number makes it possible to vertically center a number of important symbols, such as +, -, >, arrows, circles, X's, and so on.
Here are the links for the lazy:
[1] https://melonking.net/
[2] https://gifypet.neocities.org/
[3] https://textures.neocities.org/
[4] https://momg.neocities.org/
[5] https://tamanotchi.world/
[6] https://ozwomp.online/
[7] https://melonland.net/