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Re:Write HTML Like It's 1999 by temp129038 on Saturday June 08, 2019 @03:41PM (#20134631)
I didn’t find this particularly insightful, and disagree with many of the points made.

First of all the post is arguing for more semantic HTML and says nothing about using semantic HTML5 tags over <div>? AFAIK semantic tags didn’t even exist before HTML5 which is definitely not the 90s.

I also find using the <table> element generally be bad practice. There are much better/easier ways to build responsive tables using grid or flexbox than dealing with <tr>/<thead>/<td> everywhere.

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Re:Write HTML Like It's 1999 by kolanos on Saturday June 08, 2019 @05:27PM (#20135290)
> I also find using the <table> element generally be bad practice. There are much better/easier ways to build responsive tables using grid or flexbox than dealing with <tr>/<thead>/<td> everywhere.

Try using that monstrosity in a screen reader. You completely break vertical/column navigation. Hardly better.

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