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simple table-based layouts Nobody who ever used table-based layouts for anything of substance would describe them as "simple". Back in those days, websites wo
by al2o3cr 7y ago
simple table-based layouts
Nobody who ever used table-based layouts for anything of substance would describe them as "simple".
Back in those days, websites would regularly specify a minimum screen size (800x600 and 1024x768 were popular) and woe to anybody with a smaller display...
- WorldMaker 7y agoBack in the day to get things like "nice rounded corners" required hacks in your tables like 1px empty spacer gifs and rounded corner gifs. CSS may seem less "simple" to learn, but compare it to "borrowing" a copy of Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro and learning that tool just to get something as boringly nice as "rounded corners" that you had control over. (Source: I rebuilt my blog a few years back mostly specifically to make my 90's kid self envious that I could actually do the LCARS things I had wanted to do back then with no corner gifs or spacer gifs, and in a way that responsively reflows content that TABLEs never could.)