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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

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197 points OuterVale | 3 comments | 11 Dec 25 04:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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afavour ◴[11 Dec 25 05:36 UTC] No.46228033[source]▶
Tables aren’t dead, they never were… when displaying tabular data. When it comes to layout I think you might be wearing rose tinted glasses. Remember having to put a 1px image in a table cell to avoid it disappearing? Remember “best viewed at 800x600”? I’m personally not nostalgic for either.
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1. tobr ◴[11 Dec 25 08:53 UTC] No.46229095[source]▶
For what it’s worth, the very page we’re on here still uses tables and spacer gifs, in 2025. (EDIT: I don’t mean to imply that this is good, just an inescapable observation in this context)
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2. Popeyes ◴[11 Dec 25 09:20 UTC] No.46229283[source]▶
Probably why there are endless reworkings of the site.
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3. anonymars ◴[11 Dec 25 16:09 UTC] No.46233159[source]▶
I imagine it's also why its size is measured in kilobytes and loading time in milliseconds