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- johnnnnyh0
I think my issue is about how much time I seem to spend trying to find a "solution" without using a table, when a table would do it pretty quickly (used in the same way that the BBC use them). Nevertheless there's this unseen, unchallengable, "voice" which states that using a table is somehow wrong.
Totally agree that they probably had budget constraints, time etc. which has resulted in a hybrid solution with a bit of old and new mixed together.
I suppose I wish when they put out CSS/standards someone had said that we should use CSS where possible but that there are things it can't do and in those cases we're OK to use a table to hold the structure together.
I know no one will be able to definitavely go back on this, but I feel that some one somewhere "set a standard" but they had no thought about the real world impact of that.