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Animatstoday at 8:13 AM2 repliesview on HN

Here's the famous 2004 article on why tables are bad.[1] Cool people do everything with break and div. The CSS crowd then spent two decades re-inventing tables.

[1] https://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html


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socalgal2today at 8:55 AM

Tables are not responsive. They don't adjust to changing screen sizes. That was okay, maybe, when everyone was only on desktop/laptops but changed once mobile and tablets appeared.

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