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Re:CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square by tannhaeuser on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:15PM (#13533438)
This is not a tables-vs-CSS thing. Hey, I'm looking forward to servo and applaud Mozilla devs for it; but the reason they found it worthwile to invent an entire new programming language for implementing it certainly is telling about CSS's insane complexity.
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Re:CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square by pcwalton on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:52PM (#13533872)
GPU vendors invented an entirely new programming language for drawing triangles. Creating a new programming language to a solve a task doesn't mean that task is overly complex.

CSS has its problems (I'm the first to admit that), but on balance I think it's the best layout language that has been devised for documents.

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