IE-HTML Summer ’97 Contest
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007It’s Midsummer Night’s eve 2007 and it’s just hit me that it makes it ten years since we took part in the IE-HTML Summer 97 contest. That was a big milestone for me work-wise – and for us as a family too! Our eldest daughter was on ‘work experience’ with us in the run up to the contest for a project that she had to write up for school. I think it was her first real taste of working in a team and it was a really fun experience for us all, lots of pressure, time constraints, late nights at the code face – and a lot of laughs.
The competition – if I recall correctly, and bear in mind it has been ten years! – was to create a website around the theme ‘Midsummer demonstrating the capabilities of Internet Explorer (at that point it was still version 3 – IE4 came out a few months later) and Microsoft was the sponsor. Client side scripting was still largely in its infancy, as was CSS. The browser wars were (more…)