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Posted by rfr on 04/15/06 03:42
It is still faster, more cross-browser reliable to use tables as a means to
handle the layout placement / display of material.
And there are more tools availble to accomplish this with tables than with
divs.
Do you want to spend hours on a task, or minutes?
What tools are there for the millions of occasional or intermittent Internet
authors? Tables! That is about it!
So, all you purists, while technically exact, are missing the point.
Tables work! They are cross-browser. They are reliable. They are easy for
masses of people to visually understand because they are a familiar concept.
There are software tools to help develop tables and trouble shoot them.
Layers and positioning concepts do NOT yet work reliably cross-browser and
there are not tools to develope them that can be used by the common masses
of people.
I wish there were ways to reliably, fast use CSS. But, until there are, I
will continue to use table for layout control in many areas . . . not all .
.. but many.
"Paul B" <dfmmm3m3o4@seventynine.net> wrote in message
news:20060413220711.3a2d7045@pear.mshome.net...
>I understand that using tables is not the 'correct' way to create a
> webpage layout, so I wondered what the general consensus is on using
> div tags to 'simulate' a table:
> http://seventynine.net/testing/test01.html
>
> It is a very very basic example but I'm sure anyone who has made a
> layout with a table can see the point behind it.
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