In some ways I feel sad for web developers that came to the web after 2013. We had a lot of ridiculous technology and the web was mostly a sandbox and boy did we throw sand but we had a lot of optimism even after 9/11. It was a very different era but from 1993 onward it was epic.
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The amount of fun we had,Mols, should have been illegal.
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Replying to @MichaelClawson @TomGreen
I taught classes once upon a long time ago and table-based layouts and how to do them in an accessible way and linearize text and deal with quirks in implementations across browsers it was a long time ago but it seems like yesterday and I miss everything but spacers they sucked

Aug 24, 2022 · 12:49 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @MichaelClawson
Just called my therapist. The horrors of nested tables.The horrors!
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True story Dave Raggett wrote the first specs for tables at w3c and his proposal did in fact have a table-based layouts however not spacer gifts and nested crap. That was around and but it was really popularized by David Siegel who apologized for breaking the web and then left!