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I yearn for those days. CSS was a mistake. Tables and DHTML is all one needs.
by mmanfrin 9mo ago
I yearn for those days. CSS was a mistake. Tables and DHTML is all one needs.
- bluSCALE4 9mo agoCSS was a mistake? JavaScript was a mistake, specifically JavaScript frameworks.
- tobyjsullivan 9mo agoJavaScript? HTML and HTTP were the real mistakes.
- someguyiguess 9mo agoHTML and HTTP? TCP was the real mistake.
- insaider 9mo ago"In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has widely been considered as a bad move."
- thomasz 9mo agoYou jest, but it took forever to add somewhat intuitive layout mechanism to css which allowed you to do what could be done easily with html tables. Vertically centering a div inside another was really hard, and very few people understood the techniques you would use, instead of blindly copying them. It was beyond irony that the recommended solution was to tell the browser to render your divs as a table.