Re: CSS vs. Tables OT

On Tue, April 17, 2007 10:15 pm, Paul Novitski wrote: > At 4/17/2007 07:53 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: >>On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:28 -0500, Anna V wrote: >> > I've never never had used tables for layouts (I worked on pretty >> > complicated projects)... Heck, http://espn.com is CSS >> > based, and >> it looks >> > pretty darn amazing. Just my quick thought on this. :) >> >>They certainly use CSS AND they use table for the main layout. > > > Just to be accurate: if you look at the espn.com source you'll see > that the only table on the page contains an advertisement in the > masthead and doesn't contain the main layout. Because it's the > exception and because it's an ad, my guess is that it's markup > imposed on the designers from the outside. I didn't see a similar > structure on the few sub-pages I glanced at, so it doesn't appear to > be part of the overall layout strategy. Maybe Sports Fans (not me) love it, but I think it's WAY too busy with WAY too much crap on that page... [shrug] -- 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?