Hey Ron, You said:
>I'm curious: why is this approach "frowned upon"? Please >don't get me >wrong, because I do fully understand that the *goal* of CSS is >for >the purpose of layout, etc., and tables were never really meant >for >that, but at the same time I can *easily* create a site using >tables >and have *no* cross-browser/platform problems at all -- on the >other >hand, I've attempted to create sites with CSS layouts, and have >only >ended up with a thoroughly buggy site. Perhaps I just don't >know CSS >well enough to know what I'm doing, but having now been on >this lis >for a few months now (since last July), it seems like practically >everyone has innumerable, sometimes insurmountable, >problems in >attempting to do so -- when quite often many of these problems >would >simply "disappear" if a table had been used for layout instead of >CSS I taught a workshop recently in CSS design. These people were all still using "hybrid" designing because they couldn't get the knack of tableless design. In my intro, I asked them to each give their names and tell me which browser they used for testing their layouts during their workflow. Without a single exception, they all said IE. I made them develop for Firefox during the class, and then we "fixed" for IE, which only took MINOR adjustments. By the end of the one day workshop they had all completed two simple tableless layouts using the layouts at the layoutgala site. All their layouts worked in all browsers. I suspect you are just complacent and don't wish to make the effort to learn. And I suspect you might be making the same mistake my workshop students did. It never takes me more than 20 minutes to "hack" a layout for IE, and it already works in all the other browsers. And many times it takes me much less than that. I've been using tableless layouts for years. All the problems have already been solved for you. What are you waiting for? -- Ciao for now, bj mailto:[email protected] http://bitchslappin.net - Taking a Hard Look at the Business of Politics http://greenspeak.org - Small scale local environmental action http://kickasswebdesign.com NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant or notice and also without any judicial or legislative oversight. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
