Re: FN-FORUM: CSS Madness - split topic here

date posted 20th February 2008 10:11


On 20 Feb 2008, at 11:20, Colin Shipton wrote:

>
>> Is it just me, or is life just easier using tables (prepares
>> himself to
>> be flamed by purists)? Until ALL browser developers work together
>> and
>> decide on a common method of using CSS, isn't life just too damned
>> hard
>> to use pure CSS? Even if you get it all working fine, out comes IE7
>> and blows your web pages apart. Not so bad if you only have a few
>> websites, but if you have dozens or even hundreds, the re-work is
>> just
>> damned scary!
>
> Yuck, tables how nasty :)
>
> I've been building table-less websites for approx. 4 years and I
> think I've
> got almost every bug covered, as far as I know not one of my sites
> broke
> when IE7 came out as I already knew the best methods for dealing with
> browser variations and I personally could never go back to tables.

+1, although I suspect I've been table-less for longer.

(I'm in the midst of adding to an old app I wrote when I didn't know
better and dealing with forms laid out as tables is doing my head in...)