God's GIF to Web Design

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Claims that layout with a 1×1 pixel GIF achieves pixel‑perfect placement using stretched invisible images, with a CDN called onebyonegif.net serving them. Tools include spacer GIFs for indents and table layout, corner images to fake rounded corners via corner images, and on‑the‑fly CGI generators. Surprising numbers: smallest GIF implementations are ~43 bytes theoretical while Google uses a 35 bytes white pixel. The method works reliably but breaks semantics, hurts copy‑paste and accessibility, and later fixes (Scriptaculous) trade images for stacks of divs.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:37Summary
3. 2:49Semantic Web
4. 3:56Creating Killer Websites
5. 6:03Indenture Paragraphs
6. 9:41Rounded Corners
7. 12:33The Extensible Web Manifesto

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