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		PG Uses an Image Map, Gif Bullets, and Tables for Everything
		10 points by gursikh on Jan 3, 2011 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment
		view-source:http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html The menu is a single image mapped to urls. He generates bullets by stretching out a gif and uses a plethora of tds for absurd purposes. This makes me smile. And then shudder. And then smile.

coderdude on Jan 3, 2011 [–]

That's because he hosts his site on Yahoo Store, and if I recall correctly all the old-school RTML templates generated image maps for the left-hand navigation. Shudder, RTML has brought my life a lot of pain over the years.

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