It was rough early-on. You could do complex layouts with hacks but they worked inconsistently on each browser, CSS itself was inconsistent across browsers, vend

It was rough early-on. You could do complex layouts with hacks but they worked inconsistently on each browser, CSS itself was inconsistent across browsers, vendor prefixes all over the place. Remember the 'holy grail' layout of three columns, header and footer? Trivial in CSS Grid of course, but practically impossible without tables before.