Yeah, you're right, but for how many years did we fit the square-peg in the round-hole using html/css for "web-applications"? And anyway, how long did we have

Yeah, you're right, but for how many years did we fit the square-peg in the round-hole using html/css for "web-applications"? And anyway, how long did we have to use browsers before people realized it's not exactly a piece of A5 paper?