Kids, you have no idea how much better we have it now! Back then, there wasn't a reasonable reliable cross-browser way to get single pixel collapsed table bord

Kids, you have no idea how much better we have it now! Back then, there wasn't a reasonable reliable cross-browser way to get single pixel collapsed table borders. If you wanted to have such a thing, you'd need to nest the table inside another table with a single cell for the background color. But Netscape had awful table rendering performance. The more content in the table, the longer Netscape would take to sit there and render it, scaling disproportionately. The nesting just made it worse! This was also in the days before reflow. If you resize the viewport, Netscape would redraw the entire page from scratch!