[ghayes]

I feel like some of the newer standards like CSS Grid instead of tables might be the best way to go. Many HTML/CSS improvements were not just bloat but actually better standards to build on.

[edoceo]

Right! Crazy fonts or cursors, not on smolweb (as another use put it) but Flex and Grid are almost necessary. There are loads of things that could be dropped (it feels like).

I just want one of these browsers to give me a proper ComboBox (text, search and drop-down thing)

[shakna]

From accessibility background: Please stop using CSS for table data. It does not translate to my screenreader.

[notpushkin]

Yes, but grids are everywhere in the UIs, not just the tables. In 2000-s, the problem was the opposite of what we have now: every interface was a table full of tables, because there was no other way to position things reliably.

But now we have best of both worlds: use <table> for the actual tables, and CSS grid for UI layouts.

[userbinator]

You still need to have tables.

[dmd]

And <marquee>, of course.

[WorldMaker]

But the rendering engine might be easier to build with TABLE as a specialization of CSS Grid layout rendering rather than the slow real world work of CSS Grid being a generalization of TABLE rendering.