Tables used for presentational layout are a hack, implemented in an albiet
ingenious way to overcome the shortcomings of the Web quite a while ago now.
Tables should be used for the display of tabular data, ie spreadsheets,
calendars etc.
Table layout increases download times, the deeper nested
Robert Cummings wrote:
> No, it's old school, the only way to do complex layout in the past. At
> least tables are backward and forward compatible.
I would not say tables are forwards compatible.
If you are a company (at least in the UK) and your website does not meet
accessibility guidelines you
On Tue, April 17, 2007 4:41 pm, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
>>> BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with a reasonable
>>> amount of
>>> practice can make CSS layouts that resize as well as table based
>>> layouts
>>> everyday of the week. I will refer you to
>>> http://ww
Robert Cummings wrote:
>> BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with a reasonable amount of
>> practice can make CSS layouts that resize as well as table based layouts
>> everyday of the week. I will refer you to http://www.csszengarden.com/
>
> Only with hacks.
The hacks fix buggy browser
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