CSS vs Tables
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- jevad0
It's a really tough call, and most of the time it relies on how flexible and open to learning your client(s) is(are).
For example, when we were redoing http://www.ubinetics.com, the client had said they wanted it working for IE4 and NN4.7 up. We thought about it, and decided to sit them down one meeting and talk to them about standards.
They are, after all, a company at the forefront of new technology, so why not have a website to complement that.
They were very receptive to the idea, and as such, that website is strict standards compliant. Users with a non-standards compliant browser are redirected to an explanation page where there are links to upgrade your browsers, and a link to webstandards.rg, as an explanation to why their browser needs to be upgraded.
Conversley, when I am doing a small knock-off site for a small company or client - I don't use CSS to layout the pages. I use tables and our old friend mr 1px gif. Part of it is down to lazyness, the other part is down to not wanting to explain to them WHY it isn;t working in their browser properly, or rather, getting tired of TRYING to explain to them. But I do try....