Comment by dmitriid
3 years ago
> Many years ago, probably 20, I went on a task of implementing a web browser. I remember I gave up at rendering tables.
HTML 5 effort has cleaned up a lot of behaviors and specified how browser tags should behave. So it is, possibly, an approachable task now. Still daunting though.
Tables are still not that clean! But luckily tables are way way less important than they were in the past, so much so that browser differences in table rendering leaves most pages readable.