alt Hacker NewsHave you considered using tables?
It is funny how we keep asking more and more and more even though we already have it so much better than before. Can we never be happy with what we have?
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sabellito • yesterday at 12:47 PM
How would tables solve the issue they're talking about?
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> It is funny how we keep asking more and more and more even though we already have it so much better than before.
I've been developing web stuff for 15 years now and sometimes I can't believe comments like these. We didn't have it "so much better before". CSS sucked hard and getting things right for three devices was an incredible pain in the ass.
Tables have semantic meaning. They don't support fractional units. Reflowing for mobile is impossible and you need JS hacks like splitting tables. You can't reorder natively.