Re: CSS vs. Tables OT

On Tue, April 17, 2007 6:53 pm, 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. The question on the table is whether it's ALWAYS a worse hack than the ASCII soup hacks of CSS to get the layout one wants in all browsers. I would contend that in *SOME* cases, if you really want *that* layout, the table hack is more maintainable code, as a whole body, than the CSS hacks. It's possible that I only know the bad CSS people who can't do their job right. :-v I love the ideals of CSS; It's the implementation I sometimes hate, and will take a TABLE in preference. It's gotten better, though, so I mostly prefer CSS now. But only if one is willing to accept a simple layout, and not insist on some whiz-bang layout that requires gnarly CSS ASCII soup hacks. At that point, I long for the simplicity of a simple TABLE, though it's usually too late to do anything about it in the real world time constraints. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?