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In 2010 I was working for a student computer support shop. We had web developers building our own ticketing system. In those days, I was told that everything i
by djha-skin 1y ago
In 2010 I was working for a student computer support shop. We had web developers building our own ticketing system. In those days, I was told that everything in the UI was just tables. It was the only way they could get enough control on UI elements before div tags became widely spread.
- rzzzt 1y agoAlso 1x1 pixel spacer GIFs.
- aruggirello 1y agoIE6 forced us to do crazy stupid stuff, like <div> </div> - and don't even start talking about <!-- ie "preprocessor like directives" -->
- accrual 1y agoI still love using tables in 2025 for webapps designed to run on old browsers. It's easy to render data into them (it's just headers, rows, columns) and they automatically have a cool, functional look (IMO).
- im3w1l 1y agoHtml tables are very different from excel tables. Fundamentally html tables were used because rows are a good way to split up the page vertically (you could have one row for the header, one for the content one for the footer). And columns are good for splitting it up horizontally (you could have one column for the side panel, and one for the content, and the last one for an obnoxious blinking ad).
- Klonoar 1y agoDiv tags were widely spread by 2010, though. We were pretty far past the era of falling back to tables by that point.