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> (1) it should have been designed around what people actually try to do It was but a lot has changed in the last 20 years. At the time CSS was first supporte
by dwd 8y ago
> (1) it should have been designed around what people actually try to do
It was but a lot has changed in the last 20 years.
At the time CSS was first supported in most browsers, the way to create columnar layouts was with a frameset. They even handled fixed position headers and footers.
I can't believe I've been writing CSS for 20 fucking years.
- mcphage 8y ago> the way to create columnar layouts was with a frameset Ohgod, I forgot about that one. Ugh. Of all the bad ways to make a 3-column layout, that one was definitely the worst.
- int_19h 8y agoFramesets broke linking to individual pages of the website, since those pages would be opened inside the frames.