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Finally we're getting back what <table> gave us years ago.

• fortybillion 15y ago
  Nested tables worked, but they were incredibly hard to write/edit by hand. This gives us a way of using those layout concepts while still maintaining some separation of document structure and layout definition.
• olavk 15y ago
  CSS2 (from 10 years ago) is equal in power to HTML tables. (The display:table-* properties are based directly on the layout model of HTML tables. For better or worse - they are also somewhat underspecified like HTML tables was.) These new proposals are much more powerful. Most notably they allow you to visually place elements in a grid independent of the source-order. CSS2 (and HTML table markup) does not allow that, ie. visually adjacent cells must also be adjacent in the HTML.
• intellection 15y ago
  Stable Tables ♥ Datatree structure Why is my CSS/webdesign intellectualized into a math problem? Is it wrong tables work and feel like building blocks? WYSIWYG enabled full sight. Some walls privilege CSS. Internet anyone can build? Anyone can build a table. </tables> <div style"TL;DR">Tables fit WYSIWYG whereas CSS abstracts. Coding more WYSIWYG could ease.</div> <!-- Join a table or float away? --> </body> </html>