tableless design
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- northern0
In my view it's all about clean code, separating content from display and utilising HTML markup tags for their correct use.
It helps with accessibility, it helps with search engines and it help you, as all your code is clean and managable.
All these table problems came from the old school when we were trying to do things with HTML that it wasn't designed to do, or that the browsers could render. The fall out now is that the tools are there and we just have to use them properly this time.
- jevad0
Personally - I couldn't give a shit how a site is coded - if it works on all the browsers I use proplery, loads fast, and doesn't break - I don't see a problem.
Nothing winds me up more than the standards nazis coming down on a nice looking website because it uses tables for the layout...
- ukit0
Just to play devil's advocate, although what you can do with CSS has improved greatly, it still isn't all the way there for all layouts in all browsers yet. Certain non-standard layouts still call for tables. And before you master CSS you will undoubtably spend countless hours trying to do achieve something with CSS that you could do with tables in 10 seconds;)
- seed0
"Certain non-standard layouts still call for tables."
I don't think I agree with this. Can you give an example?