Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 10/09/06 13:41

Vaxius wrote:

> I don't believe it's time to switch to using pure CSS for layouts.

You're right. The time arrived several years ago.

> My reasoning? IE. I could launch off on a tangent

Please don't. It's all been said millions of times already.

> about all the retarded things IE does with CSS,

Sure it does some retarded things. So why not write good CSS that does
not do retarded things?

> but the fact remains that over 80% of people on the Internet use IE,
> and I don't want my site butchered it (I did a recent check and made
> a CSS layout for the hell of it, looked great in Firefox and Opera,
> looked absolutely horrible in IE).

Then either you did something wrong, or you are striving for a
"pixel-perfect" layout, which is almost always doomed to failure, even
with tables.

Most "pixel-perfect" sites break horribly with a simple increase in text
size.

> And though there are hacks to get around IE's deficiencies, I can't
> bring myself to dirty up my code like that. Therefore, I believe the
> ugly tables solution will have to do for the immediate future.

Well, you have fun with your ugly tables, hard-to-maintain, bloated
pages then. I wish you well.

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-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

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