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Let he who has not used table-based layout cast the first stone ...

• ntumlin 13y ago
  I remember thinking, "Wow! It even makes these stylish borders around the cells" Oh the horror.
• eksith 13y ago
  Table based layouts (still being used on practically every forum I frequent) weren't so bad until mobile came into the picture. With fixed sizes, they just weren't flexible. Plus the added bandwidth of sending hundreds of <td>s were non-trivial for those of us who were on a shoestring budget and had sudden influx of visitors back in the day. Of course, now we've replaced the hundreds of <td> with hundreds of JS files instead. Problem solved!
  • runn1ng 13y ago
    If I remember correctly, in IE6, the table didn't load until all of the elements loaded. That's how they tought us tables were baaad.
    • eksith 13y ago
      Indeed, you do remember correctly. This was especially fun on dialup. But it was OK because the forum was running phpBB, which would invariably be hacked/spammed, so you'd be getting a free dialer which was guaranteed increase download speeds ;)