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Tabular data? Tables have a purpose, it's just that people misused them for layout purposes.

• loloquwowndueo 11mo ago
  To be fair, we did that when there wasn’t much choice for laying out web pages other than using tables. I was there!
  • cogman10 11mo ago
    Especially in ways that worked cross browser. Young folk don't understand just how wildly different IE5 was to the Netscape or the Mozilla browser. Or just how bad Javascript was when it started to be used on the internet. I've lived through and seen the evolution. For all the shit the JS community takes for constantly revving frameworks, it's 1000x easier to make a website that looks the same regardless of browser due to a lot of these frameworks and browsers themselves evolving.
  • dvratil 11mo ago
    It's not that long ago that tables were the only reliable layout tool for HTML emails (mostly due to Outlook supporting only very limited subset of CSS).