Exactly! There is a whole taxonomy of hacks. Syntax hacks (star hack), CSS hacks (clearfix), quirks mode doctypes. A few years before that, we had single pixe

Exactly! There is a whole taxonomy of hacks. Syntax hacks (star hack), CSS hacks (clearfix), quirks mode doctypes. A few years before that, we had single pixel GIF transparent spacers to manage table cells in layout, and more atrocious hacks. This was a dark age.