Posted by Nik Coughlin on 01/03/99 11:49

phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
> In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html VK <schools_ring@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It is a joke to drop table because "daddy said no" and then recreate
>> it's exact behavior on div's because "daddy didn't mention that".
>
> So don't drop tables.
>
> Of couse, if you want to anyway, you can. And it might even work in
> IE7 or IE8 or IE9 or so in several years.

You can do table-less layouts with CSS that even work in IE 5. Any table
layout can be reproduced like this. It just takes a bit of effort to change
your mindset from table layout to CSS layout and to learn the various
browser quirks and how to work around them.

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