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by rsch 859 days ago
Haha yes I remember that.

Pros and cons of using DIVs and CSS:

+ hipster cred

- DIV soup

- CSS back then was wildly, W I L D L Y unsuitable for what people where trying to do (I think it boils down to it being designed to format documents, not web apps or on-screen layouts)

Pros of using TABLE:

+ Actually works

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I never had to spend time in the old days debugging centering, I just used <center> and tables and it worked! Then I could spend the time saved by adding <font> tags everywhere and making images for my rounded corners.