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Posted by ron on 09/25/06 20:20
Chris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've already read several times that CSS should be used instead of tables to
> layout your pages. But why is that actually? And why is fixed width layout
> so bad?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
Chris here are my 2 cents:
Html by itself is left up to the browser to format/display to the user.
Web designers were finding it difficult to display information with
their own creative look and feel.
Then someone tried using tables for something they were not designed
for, and in a round-about-way it worked.
If you have a small site this may not be a problem, but if you have a
large site it becomes a virtual mess to update and/or fix. If you have
a very complex site, you will have tables nested with tables nested
within even more tables. It becomes insane.
CSS was not considered because at the time this was mostly suggested
for microsofts' IE browser, so to not discount anyone in the target
audience which had mozilla or netscape, most designer did not use CSS
for layout.
However today I can use CSS and it will work in Mozilla, Firefox,
etc... I can use CSS to create a layout with navigation bars and the
like, and for every new page I need, I just include the CSS.
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