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by edvinbesic 824 days ago
What war are you referring to, and what hipsters? As someone who used tables extensively for layout at the time, there was never any war against it, just a desire for better layout via CSS which is what we have today (flexbox, grid).

Calling it a war against tables for actual tabular data is a bit over the top.
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coldtea 823 days ago
Oh, there definitely was a war.

There was also a desire for a better layour (flexbox, grid) but there was a war against tables for layout ("not semantic") even when the other option was a pile of hacks and kludges based on "float".

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