Comment on My favourite 3 lines of CSSparentComments−lelanthran3yAnd of course, the original sin of the misuse of HTML tables for layout.Hardly a sin - there were no alternatives at the time (1996 - 1998) if you wanted a tabular or grid layout.−alwillis3ySure, but developers continued to use tables long after there were alternatives.The first edition of Zeldman’s seminal book Designing with Web Standards [1] was released in 2003; two additional editions were released in 2007 and 2009.[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_with_Web_Standards
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Hardly a sin - there were no alternatives at the time (1996 - 1998) if you wanted a tabular or grid layout.
Sure, but developers continued to use tables long after there were alternatives.
The first edition of Zeldman’s seminal book Designing with Web Standards [1] was released in 2003; two additional editions were released in 2007 and 2009.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_with_Web_Standards