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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

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197 points OuterVale | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 04:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.195s | source
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anonymars ◴[11 Dec 25 05:18 UTC] No.46227939[source]▶
I will never understand the bizarre scene of the web's smug collective declaration that tables were dead and not to be used juxtaposed against the years it took to regain the ability to reliably center things. Assuming one agrees that we even did regain it.

Related: I also love when I can't paste tabular data into Excel/etc. anymore

For the record, I don't hate the idea of stylesheets, but...sheesh

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xboxnolifes ◴[11 Dec 25 07:05 UTC] No.46228508[source]▶
I think it was advised a bit too early, but ever since flexbox entered the scene, tables for page formatting became irrelevant.

And just in case, nobody ever said tables were dead. Tables were declared bad practice for page formatting, not for tabular data.

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cluckindan ◴[11 Dec 25 07:33 UTC] No.46228655[source]▶
Do not use flexbox for page layout. It invites nested flexboxes, which eats your reflow performance.

Use grid instead.

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1. easyThrowaway ◴[11 Dec 25 08:28 UTC] No.46228947[source]▶
Not the first time I hear of this, but I thought it was a blink-specific issue when using severely nested structures (e.g., html pages written using visual editors like Elementor or Webflow)?