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> It was poorly designed by a group of people who chose to ignore existing understanding of layout models. Can you please elaborate how tables were the underst

by Aldo_MX 13y ago

> It was poorly designed by a group of people who chose to ignore existing understanding of layout models. Can you please elaborate how tables were the understanding of layout models 15 years ago? The web was not thought to be interactive at that era, but to be printed, it's not the fault of the old specs that the web progressed significantly fast.

svachalek 13y ago
Who said the web was designed to be printed? (1) The "H" in HTML stands for hypertext. (2) When has a web page ever printed well?
- pstuart 13y ago
  But there was no client side language to do anything with it.
- Aldo_MX 13y ago
  Who said the web was designed to be printed? I said the web was tought to be printed, all the effort of CSS (circa 98) was about styling the web in a way that made sense for print, not for interaction.
gcv 13y ago
I said nothing about tables. I specifically referred to the TeX boxes+glue model. In addition, if the web was truly meant to be printed — an assertion I have never heard before; it sounds blatantly false — then not adopting the massively successful TeX system sounds even more insane.