Re: New to PHP question

From:	Stephen	Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:40:01 +0000
Subject:	Re: New to PHP question
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Boyd, Todd M. wrote:

The horror. Do not use tables for layout. Use CSS. Especially now that Microsoft, just this week, is sending out IE 8 which seems to be fully CCS standards compliant.
    
Your high horse--get off of it. Dude! Did you read what I wrote? I wrote do not use tables for layout!

Are you not familiar with "div-itis"? If I need to represent data in a grid-style layout, I am going to use a <table> every time instead of making tons of <div> elements and tying them into the appropriate CSS. It you have tabular data to present, use HTML tables! That is what they are for.

But use CSS to format the table.

Finally, just because IE8 is (supposed to be) fully CSS standards compliant doesn't mean anything for IE7, IE6, IE5, etc. Microsoft is pushing IE 8 with their bug fix process.

Not a bad idea to include a little JS to warm users with <IE8 to upgrade. Stephen