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Tried replicating a GeoCities page layout from 1998 using pure CSS and it took me 3 hours to realize tables were actually easier
Spent all afternoon fighting flexbox to get that neon green text over a tiled star background to line up right and finally gave up and used a table layout like the original and it worked in 5 minutes, has anyone else found modern tools just overcomplicate the old look?
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the_amy28d ago
Hit the nail on the head. Modern CSS tries too hard to be clever when tables just work for retro layouts. Sometimes the old way is the right way.
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taylor.betty28d ago
Notice it everywhere now, same thing with people throwing out perfectly good tools because they're not fancy enough. My aunt still uses a paper address book and she never loses contacts, while I'm over here with three different cloud services that keep breaking. Sometimes the simple straightforward solution is the best one, even if it doesn't look as impressive on paper.
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