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Re:Why Tailwind Isn't for Me by 9dev on Friday January 26, 2024 @06:02AM (#39141259)
Is that so? From my memory, most people used tables for layouts, or full-out relied on div tags for everything. At some point, HTML5 brought headers and footers and navs and more, and if anything, that made the situation better since.

But if the working groups continue to pretend HTML is for text documents instead of web applications, things will never get more semantic.

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Re:Why Tailwind Isn't for Me by troupo on Friday January 26, 2024 @06:13PM (#39150148)
> But if the working groups continue to pretend HTML is for text documents instead of web applications, things will never get more semantic.

I mean, HTML is and will always forever be a system to display a few pages of text with some images thrown in. And even for that it sucks big time.

Anything standards committees have been throwing at it over the years are just haphazard hacks to make it into something it's not with no coherent goal in mind.

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Re:Why Tailwind Isn't for Me by ricardobeat on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:25AM (#39175107)
Tables for layout started dying around 2008. Eight years ago is 2016, so there is quite a large period in between.
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