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amelius on Aug 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Languages Which Almost Became CSS

I wonder if any of the alternative languages, in contrast to CSS in the beginning, did provide a simple way to center content along the x and y axes.

xxs on Aug 4, 2017 [–]

We did use <table> for this... nested tables, over nested tables; although they were somewhat buggy in netscape 4

amelius on Aug 4, 2017 | [–]

Yes, that's why I explicitly said "simple" :)

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