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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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
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Just called my therapist. The horrors of nested tables.The horrors!
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Replying to @TomGreen @MichaelClawson
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!

Aug 24, 2022 · 1:10 AM UTC