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Re:Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout by jampekka on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @03:56PM (#40136541)
There was a huge cargo cult adamantly against using tables back in the day, even though the "true way" of hacking divs with float and clearfixes and invisible images was totally broken. Somehow having bunch of wrapper and empty divs was "more semantic" or something.

I was in the cult. It was totally inane, but seems to carry some effects to this day.

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Re:Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout by bazoom42 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @06:39AM (#40142727)
The movement was against using html table markup (<table>, <tr> etc.) for layout because of the accessibility issues. It was not against the CSS display:table since that does not affect accessibility.
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Re:Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout by jampekka on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:10PM (#40146108)
IE didn't support display:table until version 8.
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