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by yamtaddle 1378 days ago
> 2. The "popular" kids hated tables for layout and tried to use floats etc. A 3 column layout using floats was considered "the holy grail", because it was so hard to get it to work. Most developers continued using tables until Bootstrap and other frameworks managed to take some of the pain away

Ha ha ha! Yeah, in hindsight I should have skipped this "right way" bandwagon and stuck with tables until this phase was over. I wasted a lot more time screwing around with "float" than I did fixing up table layouts. Even if it would have made me significantly less cool.