Posted by dorayme on 11/07/07 21:11

In article <654905-753.ln1@xword.teksavvy.com>,
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2007-11-07, Ed Jensen 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.
>
> That is not a function of tables versus CSS; it's a matter of good
> coding versus bad coding.

Perhaps so. But Ed Jensen has another complaint that has been
partly dealt with but is probably interesting enough to deserve
more. Namely, that the tools used to do the good and bad coding
are unnecessarily as poor as they are.

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dorayme

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