Posted by Ed Jensen on 11/07/07 19:44

Bone Ur <monstersquasher@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'm not trying to start a "table based layouts" vs. "CSS based
>> layouts" war here, I'm just sharing my personal experience: Web sites
>> designed with table based layouts seem to handle it reasonably well
>> when I increase the text size. Web sites designed with CSS based
>> layouts seem to rarely handle it gracefully. YMMV.
>
> Maybe so, but css is _much_ better able to handle changing font-sizes than
> tables ever were, -take my word for it. If you've happened to run into a
> lot of bad css in the past, I think the future will be considerably
> brighter.

I'm hopeful that as IE7 displaces IE6 (or, even better, Firefox,
Opera, and Safari displace IE6!) that things will improve. :)

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