Posted by Vaxius on 10/10/06 02:05

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:59:51 +1000, dorayme wrote:

> In article <pan.2006.10.09.05.09.29.59575@nowhere.net>,
> Vaxius <vaxius@nowhere.net> wrote:
>
>> I don't believe it's time to switch to using pure CSS for layouts. My
>> reasoning? IE. I could launch off on a tangent about all the retarded
>> things IE does with CSS, 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). 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.
>
> What you will be told here is that you are already dirtying up
> your code with tables, that you should smarten up.
>
> I am glad you are all cock a hoop about it. I am a defeated
> being, battered by the power of this church, guilt-ridden about
> every layout table I have on old existing sites and the task of
> changing so much is altogether too daunting. It is cheaper to
> feel bad, to skulk about and lie low... occasionally neighbours
> who are probably alt.html church members come out and beat me
> with rolled up old newspapers as I try to sneak past their houses
> early to get the latest daily to read...
>
> You will feel differently when you get better at providing for IE
> 6. You can easily make a separate CSS sheet just for IEs eyes.
> Your reluctance to "dirty up" your "code" sounds to me based on a
> a few misunderstandings. For a start, the HTMl, ideally, will be
> as pure as the driven snow. It is the CSS sheets that are linked
> that can provide the solution. And it is fun. Have you got better
> things to do or something?
>
> Don't be like that US senator going on about morality but
> secretly doing dirty things anyway. Wise up young Roman! The past
> is the past. But the future is under your control.

Thanks dorayme and Beauregard, I guess it's time for me to once again
forage into the world of CSS layouts, and leave my outdated tables behind
me. BTW, does anyone know why IE seems to ignore the min-height property?

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