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I’m just glad we’re no longer in the IE6 days where getting something as simple as a stable three-column pure CSS layout was a nay-to-impossible challenge. IE9
by strenholme 6y ago
I’m just glad we’re no longer in the IE6 days where getting something as simple as a stable three-column pure CSS layout was a nay-to-impossible challenge.
IE9 was probably the first version of IE with decent CSS (read ”display: table” which wasn’t broken); all of the other browsers (which didn’t have IE9’s market share at the time) had already added “display: table” support.
Before “display: table” was widely supported, people would either mix CSS with a <table> layout, or have a fixed width (usually) single column design.
- loloquwowndueo 6y agoLOL IE :)
- strenholme 6y agoAnyone who learned CSS in the first 2000s decade was living in a world where designing a webpage was 5% getting the design down and working in Firefox, and 95% getting something to kinda sorta work in IE6. Just be glad we’re not trying to use “float” to make multi-column layouts anymore.
- olau 6y agoThe trick was to know beforehand what would work and what wouldn't. That way you only had to spend a couple of hours in the end fixing small things that were broken in IE. A couple of well-placed "zoom: 1" could fix a lot.
- josefresco 6y agoHaving lived through the "IE days", we're now in the "Chrome days" and the outcome will be no better.