[crispyambulance]

> Have people come back around to the idea that tables weren't so bad?

In a way, yes, I think so.

Grid has similarities to tables. These similarities are not accidental. They're a consequence of thinking about layout in terms of rows and columns. I recall back in the day the purists always decreed that tables were supposed to be semantic construct and not used for layout. Pragmatists just ignored that advice for years because there was nothing but a lot of obstacles if you went "table-less" for layout.

But yeah, tables "just worked" for layout despite what purists said. Now we have "grid" and it's part of css, so it's "OK" now for the purists.

I remember this comic strip from 2005, it captured the essence of the situation perfectly: https://web.archive.org/web/20100125163107/http://okcancel.c...