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Posted by dorayme on 09/02/06 21:47
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<1157188878.674228.137370@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"jokla" <djjokla@gmail.com> wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
> > In article
> >......so that the folk who promote and/or use tables for
> > layout cannot lampoon the teachings of this church.
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> I dont' understand what you mean with this
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> BTW, you guys convinced me to go back to tables . . . even if I don't
> like to do that
The point was simple enough. But allow me to have a mini rave
while explaining it:
There would be a lot of people outside the church, unlike black
sheep and desperate stirrers, that look for and settle at the
least excuse for confirmation for their prejudices. One of the
prejudices that is extremely hard to shake is that it is wiser on
the whole to avoid using tables for layout purposes. It is
extremely hard because table layouts are about an order of
magnitude easier to construct to behave cross browser, and even
to maintain for most small sites, than css driven sites for most
people of average devotion. (I know, a vague phrase, but there
are things behind it).
In spite of this, the general use of tables for layout is quite
flawed. I will not give the arguments here.
Now, to your question. If an over zealous convert to the idea of
css driven sites takes the idea so far as to try to get by
without tables altogether, even when they are quite demanded for
tabular data sections like in the example of this thread, he then
provides ammunition to those outside the church to attack the
whole church. Because he has exaggerated and taken the idea to
absurd degrees. The absurdity is quite prominent but not always
correctly diagnosed by those who do not understand the issues.
Still puzzled? OK Pal, what about this:
If a scientist goes too far and believes in things (to put it
simply but a bit innaccurately) that go 'beyond the evidence',
this just means that that particular scientist has overreached.
The enemies of science - and there are a real lot of these, you
cannot imagine how many - often use these over-reaches to lampoon
the scientific enterprise as a whole or for other unfriendly
purposes.
Let me advise you young man... do not use tables out of spite to
punish the elders of this church. It will do you no good and your
soul will be embittered.
Go in peace and bless you... I have to go and have my pills now...
--
dorayme
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