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> I have no idea why you keep bringing up <table>. It is totally unlike CSS Grid and completely unrelated in every way. I disagree. Conceptually, it is exactly

by meuk 9y ago

> I have no idea why you keep bringing up <table>. It is totally unlike CSS Grid and completely unrelated in every way. I disagree. Conceptually, it is exactly how you would do layout in the old days. This still works, btw, it's just considered bad practice. It's a bit like saying that a kitchen knife is totally unlike a dagger and completely unrelated in every way, because the former is for slicing food and the latter for stabbing.

exogen 9y ago
I'd say it's more like comparing a horse to a car: Horses were never really "vehicles." We just misappropriated them that way, because they just happen to be big and move around and we can sit on them. Cars are purpose-made to be vehicles for humans. If a designer shows you their wireframes with their grid lines drawn on top of it, I don't think many people would think "ah! so it's like in a science paper when they're printing the raw data from their experimental results in tabular form." The fact that some web developers consider them alike is a historical accident.