Once I had debunked his idealism with my carving knife story, he brought up the popular myth that tables aren’t accessible. Bunkum.
Bring back tables
I tell you what is backwards and strange – using CSS hacks to make dynamic content align vertically centred. It’s like my dad using an electric carving knife in the 80’s because it was the latest thing. Why did he do it? It wasn’t easier, it wasn’t quicker, it wasn’t necessarily better. He just did it because it felt like it was the future.