10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet

Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet by wiredfool on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:17AM (#38485896)

I love how tables "went away", and were widely replaced with bootstrap. Which gives you ... tables. in divs. But only 12 columns wide.

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Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet by renegade-otter on Friday December 01, 2023 @08:00AM (#38486168)

I think the value of Bootstrap was consistency across browsers. The grid system was the most important part. With standard Grid, Bootstrap is effectively legacy - you shouldn't really be using it at this point.

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Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet by CharlesW on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:40AM (#38488006)

> With standard Grid, Bootstrap is effectively legacy - you shouldn't really be using it at this point.

Bootstrap first adopted Flexbox for its grid system Bootstrap 4 (2018), and Bootstrap 5 (2021) added support for Grid. It's conservative about supporting new web standards, but I wouldn't personally think of it as a "legacy" framework.

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Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet by cantSpellSober on Friday December 01, 2023 @08:33AM (#38486438)

They weren't <table>s through, meaning they could be easily made responsive.

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Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet by nonethewiser on Friday December 01, 2023 @08:56AM (#38486673)

They absolutely are not tables though.

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Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet by simmer on Monday December 04, 2023 @08:20AM (#38516873)

“Gridlike layout” != “tables”.

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