Posted by phil-news-nospam on 01/05/70 11:48

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html VK <schools_ring@yahoo.com> wrote:
|
| Frank Olieu wrote:
|> Why use <h> and <p> when you can use <div class="heading"> and <div
|> class="paragraph"> ;-)
|
| And overall tables are completely dead because:
| ...
| div.grid {display: table; width: 100%; border-spacing: 1em;}
| div.grid ul {display: table-row;}
| div.grid li {display: table-cell;
| ...

That's still tables. It's just now in CSS. And it does not work
on IE. Until such time as IE comes out in full support of tables
in CSS _and_ enough time passes for virtually everyone to install
that version of IE, then don't even bother pushing people to avoid
tables in HTML in lieu of tables in CSS (or of other methods that
don't actually give the same results). This could take two or three
years after IE7 comes out if IE7 has the support, and if IE7 can run
on versions of Windows from Win98 and Win2000 to the latest. It can
be even longer if you have to wait for the OS to be upgraded or to
be switched to Linux.

In the mean time, I'll be using elements TABLE, TR, and TD for my
layouts that can't be done by other means (and this is most of them)
and not losing a bit of sleep over it.

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