[eska]

If you look at any of the suggestions in the article, each uses at least one feature that came out in the late 2010s. Add a couple of years until initial bugs were fixed (which were there), and until browser adoption is high enough that older browsers can be ignored.

Back then I could whip up a dozen centering solutions, but not a single one that worked across all browsers in all cases. Tables just worked.

You're so wrong about the history that it makes me assume that you started webdev after this compatibility mess was fixed. It was truly disgusting. If anyone had found a solution back then everyone would have slurped it up immediately.

[sodapopcan]

Ha, ya you're right. My memory on table-cell was fuzzy and didn't bother looking into before making some other responses. IE 6 and 7 had no support for it and Firefox had partial support until 2008. I'm just looking at caniuse, of course, I don't remember what Netscape supported.