[filleduchaos]

Yeah - I was squishing together the current state of things with the original. Maybe a clearer way to phrase that would have been that CSS has been able to vertically align elements like `valign` on a td does given a compatible display from day one, with the compatible displays starting with `inline` and eventually including `inline-block` and `table-cell`.

[sodapopcan]

Sure but we were told to move from tables to divs and "just use table-cell if you want vertical align" was not a great story nor was is discoverable to those had no prior context of table layout.