Remember rounded corners? It was a real pain, there were so many hacks to achieve something simple as

    border-radius: 16px;

My other favorite was sIFR font loading :) Because font support was... patchy, a technique was invented to replace headers with Flash embeds which rendered the desired font:

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/sifr-2004

▲ robin_reala 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was so glad to replace SIFR with Cufon: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/

	▲	tiborsaas an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, thanks, I knew there was another one :)

▲ ramses0 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nine-Boxes, aka: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...

...and that was a grand improvement over having to make a "tic-tac-toe" table where you'd be putting things in the particular surrounding cells to fake these fancy border-types.

▲ somat an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

A skit

Boss enters, enthusiastic hand gestures

dev: Web 2.0? what the hell are you on about?

Boss: evasive mumbling

dev: Oh... css border-radius Sure, I will get right on it.