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Yes, I know that rationale. But please! CSS was a web technology from the start. I routinely committed the deadly sin of table layouts from the mid nineties al
by interfixus 9y ago
Yes, I know that rationale.
But please! CSS was a web technology from the start. I routinely committed the deadly sin of table layouts from the mid nineties all the way up into the new millenium, because that was the only way to do it. It is utterly beyond me how CSS - glib explanations or not - could blithely ignore this very real need all through 1.0, 2.0, and well into 3.0.
But I must say, Grid was almost worth the twenty years wait, and it does bring on a sweet nostalgic rush once again having to shake a fist at various MS browsers.
- JimDabell 9y ago> CSS was a web technology from the start. Sure, of course it was. But the web was almost entirely a collection of documents back then.
- interfixus 9y agoNot how I remember it at all. By some felicitous fluke I still have the very first html I ever coded, anno 1995, complete with background sound and animated gif - but cut me a bit of slack: It was purely a personal excercise. The thing was done purely from what I'd learned studying source of available websites. The point being: My God, it's full of tables. They were a real thing by that time.
- dustingetz 9y agoPDF documents have tables. Documents are things meant for a human, it's not raw data, for computers to understand it you need machine learning. Applications are not based off documents but rather the raw data (which the machine natively understands). The transition of web from documents to a dumb platform for application software delivery is why the web is no longer the web. It is just application delivery infrastructure now. Each application lives in a walled garden and is no longer a "web" at all.
- quickthrower2 9y agoSure was. It looked like this: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022174810/http://www.altavista.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/19961022174810/http://www.altavi...