Now there’s something I haven’t heard about in a long while… “The Amazing Netscape Fish Cam”. I recall this from my school days, browsing the then fresh and new WWW, sometime in 1996 and using what was the cutting edge graphical browser at that time… Netscape 2.0.
Ok, it’s a webcam pointing at some fish… so what’s the big deal? Well, first off, the cam itself was conceived sometime in 1994 and is now the oldest live camera site on the web.
Eric Meyer, Standards Evangelist @ Netscape Communications has brought it bang up to date with structural HTML4.0 and CSS2, and DevEdge @ Netscape as ever have an article dedicated to it.
It’s also a weird feeling when someone asks you to work on something that has near-legendary status in your mind. It’s like a SCUBA enthusiast getting to join Jacques Cousteau on a dive, even down to the required time travel. I dove right in and decided to have some fun with with the redesign, which is why I rather like the final result. To share the joy, I herein present a look into just one piece of the redesign, and how I accomplished certain effects using simple HTML and some CSS.
I wonder if the Fish Cam will still be around a decade from now? :D
