Daily Archives: February 18, 2018

Did CSS kill tables on the web?

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Once upon a time there were fabulous tools for creating HTML tables.

Twenty years later the dominant web authoring tool, WordPress, has no native table support.

I have never gotten a good explanation for the death of tables.

So I’ll venture a guess.

I think it was CSS. I wonder if it’s just too hard to put HTML’s table model together with CSS.

If this is true then my CSS dislike will double …

Update 2/19/2018: @clarkgoble creates his tables in Numbers then posts into MarsEdit (choose paste and preserve formatting!). I tried it and it works! I also installed the popular tables plugin for WordPress but it’s a poor substitute for native support. I wish MarsEdit did tables, but they didn’t make the recent big update.

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Facebook dev page: “A new, easy WordPress integration will be released in the near future.”

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Link. Conveniently undated. I don’t think this is going to happen.

Update 2/19/2018: I found Facebook’s old code generator for iframe embedding and pasted the script portion and the embed portion together into a WordPress page and it seems to work. None of the WordPress plugins I looked at seemed worth using (I try to avoid both WP plugins and non-WP authored site templates.)