Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 11/07/07 21:43

On 2007-11-07, dorayme wrote:
>
>
> 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.

They are no worse than, for example, a car, which one can use for
speeding and ignoring rules of the road just as easily as for
driving sensibly.

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