Where in your comment did you mention the IE angle? The effect of lack of dev tools? Where did you mention the boondoggle of CSS2 tables and how everyone had to learn a whole new way of making floats behave? Where did you mention the laundry lists of named hacks that people used to get around browser parser differentials?
You didn't. You wrote the story as it is being told instead of how it happened.
I didn’t mention any of that because none of it is relevant to the point I was making about design.
> You wrote the story as it is being told instead of how it happened.
I did the opposite of that. I was very clearly and specifically recounting an aspect of the situation that is not being told today. When was the last time you heard somebody talk about how CSS could only create “boring, boxy” designs? It’s got to be about twenty years for me. It’s practically forgotten. Pointing that out was the whole purpose of my comment.
Both of your replies to me in this thread are about that chip on your shoulder, not about what I am saying. You should post your own thoughts as a top-level comment like I did, not get angry with me for not talking about what you want to talk about.
You didn't. You wrote the story as it is being told instead of how it happened.
You just don't know what you're talking about.