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Also why the hipster war on the table element was doomed to fail in html

• edvinbesic 3y ago
  What war are you referring to, and what hipsters? As someone who used tables extensively for layout at the time, there was never any war against it, just a desire for better layout via CSS which is what we have today (flexbox, grid). Calling it a war against tables for actual tabular data is a bit over the top.
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  • coldtea 3y ago
    Oh, there definitely was a war. There was also a desire for a better layour (flexbox, grid) but there was a war against tables for layout ("not semantic") even when the other option was a pile of hacks and kludges based on "float".
• ethanbond 3y ago
  Table elements are pretty much completely absent from modern web dev though?
  • goatlover 3y ago
    Layout yes. But not for tabular data, they're great for that.
  • AtlasBarfed 3y ago
    Yeah only took about six or seven major revisions.