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Hard disagree. I’ve been making websites since 1997, and the default box model is garbage and unusable.
by earthboundkid 6y ago
Hard disagree. I’ve been making websites since 1997, and the default box model is garbage and unusable.
- kccqzy 6y agoAround 1997 (basically when CSS first came out) many books praised the default box model as sensible and disparaged the border-box model as IE's bastardization of CSS. People hated IE so they hated IE's broken box model.
- earthboundkid 6y agoIE had better CSS support than anything else up until they froze IE6 and eventually Firefox (Chimera!) caught up and surpassed it. The hatred of IE came because it was frozen and non-standard and full of bugs. It wasn’t that the default box model was ever good, it was just that it was the spec, and there was a big push to follow the spec instead of blindly copying bugs from other browsers. At that time, we also thought XHTML was a good idea, but eventually experience taught us how to balance the spec with practicality.
- IshKebab 6y agoI mean... if they said that they were wrong. The default is clearly mad.