Meyer on Layout System
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- TheBIueOne
".... this is why the old “only use tables for layout” argument keeps coming up over and over: strip away the overheated rhetoric and obvious link-baiting, and you find the core of a real need. Because as powerful as CSS can be, table cells do certain things very easily that CSS makes very, very hard. Cells stretch vertically, keeping equal heights as a matter of their intrinsic nature. They stay out of each others’ way, while still being allowed to sit next to each other and use any sizing dimensions. They tie their layout to their parent elements, and vice versa.
There are no equivalents in CSS...."
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thought…
Good rant...
- uberdesigner0
will reading this make me a more able web designer?
- Nairn0
I thought CSS3 (/wer) tables provided a halfvvay house option these days?
- acescence0
we need a layout system, and we need the most popular browser to actually support it for it to be useful. i don't foresee getting both of those things
- raf0
I'll just wait until the morning, when moth tells Eric Meyer to learn his craft.
- 7point340
interesting read, but i'm sure i don't agree.
- raf0
I don't just agree, he reworded what I've been saying here for years.