For those lamenting about table-based layouts, stop that. Many of us early authors and educators were critical as we believed they were never meant for layout, only data. This was revealed to me by Dave Ragget, W3C, who did in fact and deed propose tables for layout in early HTML

Feb 22, 2021 · 12:31 PM UTC

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Later, as we began to get more #CSS compat via box model hacks, DOCTYPE switching and eventual rendering repairs, @zeldman (and others?) proposed "transitional design" - use a limited table with no presentation. Linearizaton in #a11y helped as we began to use floats instead! #Web
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Floats for layout were actually not meant for layouts but to allow a block to be floated so text could flow around it. Remember all the hacks to clear floats? It was again what we had at the time and we used them. Positiioning helped some, once we figured out relative x absolute.
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Replying to @mholzschlag
I got pretty skilled using the transparent single-pixel GIF to force perfect alignment. CSS was such a huge step up from those humble beginnings.
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"It looks good in IE" was what seemed to be the only care of that time. *SMH*
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