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You are trolling, mate. Obviously nobody NEEDS to resort to that. However there's a difference between ... simply to construct a decent table. and .
by huhtenberg 6y ago
You are trolling, mate.
Obviously nobody NEEDS to resort to that. However there's a difference between
... simply to construct a decent table.
and
... to construct a decent table simply.
which is what this lib is for.
- rkagerer 6y agoNice distinction! Although I'm not sure "trolling" is a fair dig. My comment was genuine. When I wrote my first HTML page you could make them out of basic <TABLE> tags and nobody would beat you over the head with a styleguide for doing it wrong. I found them approachable if you followed some basics like avoiding nesting, and with care, dynamic sizing went a long way. But I understand some people are zealously against them (for good reason). CSS addressed several of the shortcomings but introduced new complexity and gotchas. My frustration is that instead of evolving to simple, elegant and approachable syntax, we landed in a place that calls for a library to patch in those attributes on top. (And now I'm greeted with bank statements that dynamically add content as you scroll, making it impossible to cut and paste the data from a spreadsheet). None of that takes away my admiration for the author's work, I'd just prefer a world where the hole filled by this library didn't exist in the first place :-).