HTML Table
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- ismith0
Just to get back to this thread... I don't think CSS is broken at all... just that it's unintuitive for accomplishing a task that tables do very fluidly, which is an auto-spaced grid. I know how to do what I want with CSS, and if it were going to be changed frequently it would obviously make sense to do it with external CSS, but this just isn't the case. If the "table" tag was renamed "grid" I definitely believe everyone would love it...
But to update, the whole page layout is certainly done with CSS. The tables portion seems like a better option only for a small portion, but we'll see how it goes (actually, you guys probably won't. soon anyway). The point of the thread & my question was to ask why the hell I should continue to follow web "standards" even when they're inefficient and not cross-compatible? Take tables out of the equation and see if that makes sense at all, because to me it's just stupid.
IMO the usefulness of web standards is determined on a case-by-case evaluation and even though web standards will be the best option 99% of the time, there is still room for the standard not to fit the workflow or layout method.