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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Language linguistics including their subsets are all domain specific the only time semantics makes sense is in the declarative XML world of domain specificity otherwise it's nonsense it's never been defined for web except occasionally HTML5 and erroneously at that.
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Replying to @barneycarroll @barefootliam
I saw 8he API portions of 99gh i via the what workin my in the spec that maybe curious as to where it would go but I did mn HTML5 is a whole new subject should never have a4n attached to declarative markup.y feel very offended that the two could not have been involved

Feb 20, 2023 · 2:37 PM UTC