Posted by Steve Pugh on 12/18/97 11:48

VK wrote:
> Steve Pugh wrote:
> > "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;
> > >...
> > >
> > >(a recent real life sample taken from one of newsgroups)
> >
> > You're joking. Or trolling. Or both.
>
> That's wrong with you?

With you we can never tell when you're joiking, when you're trolling
and when you're just having one of your paranoid delusions. As there
were no W3C conspiracy theories in your post we can rule out the last
one in this case.

> Look at the previous post I was quoting to reply
> to. This extract of code taken from one of Big 8 groups was intended to
> continue the joke.

I wrote the code you quoted.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets/msg/1e1a2764edce726a

http://steve.pugh.net/test/css-table-demo.html

If you want to play with my toys expect me to join in the game. ;-)


More seriously, the code was written as a theoretical exercise ('cos IE
makes it impractical to use in real life) to demonstrate how CSS can
replace tables used for layout.

Replacing data tables, or replacing headings and paragraphs, with
divs+CSS is just stupid and deserves to be laughed at.

Steve

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