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History is going to look back at CSS in disbelief when it calculates the amount of engineering time was spent trying to position elements correctly.

This isn't hating on CSS as much as how broken layout creation is with no end in sight--but plenty of hacks.

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CSS layout is actually pretty good these days, with flexbox anyway. It's hard to come up with a better layout system used anywhere near as much as CSS.

Agreed, however there are a ton of companies with extremely outdated os/browser policies, that refuse to update for whatever reason. Been a contract developer for ~10 years and even this year we were told to support IE 8 on a specific project because some fortune 50 company needs us to (Seriously). There were plenty of modern tools that helped reduce issues but there was still a bit of headache.

That headache is what you get paid for.

Nope. There's usually plenty of work to do; supporting IE4 (or FF 3, or whatever Webkit shipped on Android 1.6) just makes it longer and over the budget, while squeezing out other projects.

In a word: busywork.

What do you mean? It's quite easy to position elements on the page however you please. It can get quite complicated if you wish to support multiple viewport sizes with dynamic resizing, but it can be done.

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