We just got a new web dev with 10+ years experience with the goal of helping out our rather inexperienced small team.

His first PR was for a rather large form with 30+ fields.

He. used. a. <table/>......To layout the entire thing! With inline floats no less!

How the f do you spend the last 10 years not bothering to pickup any modern css?

Ouch....

Someone should have maybe asked him about that... in the interview.

I'm no fan of trivia but "hey uh ... you like flexbox / use it... anything like that?"

@N00bPancakes It’s so strange, he used flex-box in the interview. He hadn’t a clue about grid though but we told him he’d be expected to pick it up.

...2 weeks later we get a massive table

Don’t get me wrong it was as impressive! Like a really elaborate display..... in a museum.

@boombodies

It's amazing what you can do with tables ... it's just adjusting them after the fact in some cases can mean a whole rework :(

@N00bPancakes yup! I’m doing the rework now :’-)

That's why I am saying that number of years in the industry doesn't tell you absolutely anything about developer.

10 year experience? Show me your code cause talk is cheap!

The real pity is, that it took until grid layout to make the table tag obsolete for layouting.
The CSS tables, which had first been introduced for that, just recently got common browser support for the column-span property (and there still is no row-span)...

The W3C must really love JavaScript and hate the semantic web. Whenever they invent a semantic way of doing something, they criple it in some way so you still need some JS one-liner or obscure positioning hacks to get it usable...