It's a great question yet here's the truth there was a proposal for layout used for tables. It wasn't included in the spec. There was a period of time where they could be used if linearized to make beautiful logical and more accessible than now. Was hacking floats better?
Forever Open Source @fscgo
17 Feb 2023
Replying to @mholzschlag
That’s the question to answer. If the yesterday’s tools for building websites were shown off today: Would newer developers say, “that’s much easier” or “wow, you had it much harder”
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Bert's work on CSS grid was awesome. No, there was no conspiracy, but a big confusion about what "semantics" meant and at times even whether it was a worthy goal.
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Replying to @barefootliam @barneycarroll
Linguist and language with lexical semantic background and interest in writing and meaning of everything requires understanding all have types, domain specifics before meaning makes meaning. Font is meaningful it's just presentational semantics which is a domain of semantics. SMH

Feb 20, 2023 · 6:01 AM UTC