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Re:XMLUI by djha-skin on Sunday July 20, 2025 @12:02PM (#44626482)
In 2010 I was working for a student computer support shop. We had web developers building our own ticketing system. In those days, I was told that everything in the UI was just tables. It was the only way they could get enough control on UI elements before div tags became widely spread.
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Re:XMLUI by rzzzt on Sunday July 20, 2025 @12:19PM (#44626639)
Also 1x1 pixel spacer GIFs.
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Re:XMLUI by aruggirello on Sunday July 20, 2025 @01:08PM (#44627128)
IE6 forced us to do crazy stupid stuff, like <div>&nbsp;</div> - and don't even start talking about <!-- ie "preprocessor like directives" -->
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Re:XMLUI by accrual on Sunday July 20, 2025 @12:46PM (#44626907)
I still love using tables in 2025 for webapps designed to run on old browsers. It's easy to render data into them (it's just headers, rows, columns) and they automatically have a cool, functional look (IMO).
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Re:XMLUI by im3w1l on Sunday July 20, 2025 @02:10PM (#44627718)
Html tables are very different from excel tables. Fundamentally html tables were used because rows are a good way to split up the page vertically (you could have one row for the header, one for the content one for the footer). And columns are good for splitting it up horizontally (you could have one column for the side panel, and one for the content, and the last one for an obnoxious blinking ad).
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Re:XMLUI by Klonoar on Monday July 21, 2025 @02:54AM (#44632434)
Div tags were widely spread by 2010, though.

We were pretty far past the era of falling back to tables by that point.

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