Re: CSS vs. Tables OT

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:21 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 8:14 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > > BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with a reasonable amount > > > > > of practice can make CSS layouts that resize as well as table based > > > > > layouts everyday of the week. I will refer you to > > > > > http://www.csszengarden.com/ > > > > > > > > Only with hacks. > > > > > > Using tables for layout *is* a hack. A common one, but still a hack. > > > > No, it's old school, the only way to do complex layout in the past. At > > least tables are backward and forward compatible. CSS is only > > semi-forward compatible. > > Using a semantic data structure for tabular data as a layout language? That's > a hack. It was a hack that was the only way to accomplish many things in > 1997, but that doesn't make it any less of a hack. > > No, CSS is not perfect. Far from it. Of course, designers who still, in > 2007, think they're working in a print medium are equally far from perfect. > > They could all use improvement, but let's not pretend that using a chisel as a > screwdriver isn't a hack just because it happens to have a flat end. You say "Using tables for layout *is* a hack". Unfortunately for you tables were intended for laying out tabular data. Thank you, thank you very much. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'