Posted by rf on 11/03/07 13:50

"1001 Webs" <1001webs@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Every respected Web-authoring Guru says that.
> This is the era of table-less design, CSS code, XHTML compliant
> websites.
> Separate layout from content.
>
> There's no reason to use tables any more.
> Everything can be done with CSS.
> Tables are so 2002ish ...
>
> Do you agree with that?
> I don't.
> I've run into many situations where I just couldn't achieve the
> desired effect in different browsers without using tables.

Sometimes the only way is to use a table. Sometimes. Only sometimes and only
for a very small part of a page.

One of those times is, of course, if one is offering up tabular data, which
point you seem to have missed.

> But it could be that I'm not well versed on the intricacies of CSS ...

Given the site you offered up for review over at alt.html.critique I would
have to agree with this.

--
Richard.

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