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An Objective Look at Table Based vs. CSS Based Design Web standards and CSS based design are defiantly the way forward. However in our rush to advocate these "new" techniques, we may end up believing our own hyperbole. Build something up enough and the reality will always fall short of our expectations. By taking a dogmatic approach we risk alienating the very people we are trying to convince.
A very interesting article and readers' comments.
:: Sasha, at 05:58 pm on Monday, 24. May 2004
Well, I learned to make websites without tables and acording to web standards. I learned meny things form Sasha. You inspired me in last few years god know how meny times.
Well, even if I know to make websites without tables, I did it only for myself and my personal projects... I use alot of CSS on my comercial projects but main structure is usually one table that holds everything together... it is like a fance that I am sure it will not fall alart in different browsers, I dont have to think about IE box bug, safari bugs, opera bugs, Mozilla/firefox bugs etc.
:: zoka, at 06:38 pm on Monday, 24. May 2004
I seem to recall commenting on that one, but I can't find what I wrote. Maybe I commented on what Dave Shea said.
As a very "academic" Web geek (mainly thanks to my fanatical love for Opera), I can't help but notice that Andy Budd fails to make a critical distinction: Tables vs. CSS -as implemented in Internet Explorer for Windows-. If you ask me, to say that practical CSS equates to IE6's implementation is a lie---or at best a half-truth. After all, there are at least five agents that have more options and better CSS implementatrions that Internet Explorer, including, of course, Internet Explorer 5 for Apple computers.
All of them, to my knowledge, implement the CSS table model, which in effect turns tables into an appendage of CSSS: anything can be a table (column and row spanning can't be duplicated, but that's a minor limitation).
The point, of course, is to not abuse HTML elements. Some things may be harder to do without using a table-displayed element (which means <table> if you want to be nice to the oldest piece of crap still be used in any great number today), but I've found the eyesore of reading tables in markup to be enough of a deterent for me: <table> elements are ugly and hard to make sense of when reading a document's markup.
:: J. King, at 08:45 pm on Monday, 24. May 2004
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