So many people seemed to have forgotten what HTML in 1999 looked like. Layouts done with <table>s. Extreme <table> nesting to get layout just right. 1px spacer gifs everywhere. <font> tags. Very little CSS. Despair in the messiness of HTML and hope XHTML or whatever XML-based alternative was going to eat your lunch.
Semantic HTML only came back in the 2000s. Remember CSS Zen garden? Write HTML once and style it differently to achieve completely different looks. Even then, you had huge amount of CSS bugs. Like the voice-family hack or the
* > html
selector. Reading up on standards mode and quirks mode.
Semantic HTML only came back in the 2000s. Remember CSS Zen garden? Write HTML once and style it differently to achieve completely different looks. Even then, you had huge amount of CSS bugs. Like the voice-family hack or the
selector. Reading up on standards mode and quirks mode.