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by codethief 13 days ago
Right but how would you even display a vertical menu back then? `float: left` was rather bad, so you went back to using tables[0]. Good luck making these responsive.

[0]: and to using dozens of images sliced to fit your table cells, for that cool hover effect as well as round corners. :-)
1 comments
joquarky 13 days ago
Why would documents have menus? Menus are for applications.

And there was nothing wrong with tables for layout, especially back then when the alternatives were very brittle.

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codethief 12 days ago
> Why would documents have menus? Menus are for applications.

s/menu/navigation

> And there was nothing wrong with tables for layout, especially back then when the alternatives were very brittle.

I never said there was anything wrong with tables. OP said there was nothing preventing the design from being responsive, to which I responded yes, there was, at least in a lot of cases.

(Responsiveness was also mostly irrelevant back then because smartphones were not a thing yet.)

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