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Web Page Layout Debate: Tables vs. CSS

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The AppScout website is a nice daily blog that doesn't get mentioned enough on DC.  Today there was a nice entry about some recent competing thoughts on using css vs using tables for laying out web pages.  I've had enough experiences cursing out css to consider myself in the camp that is not convinced that css is the holy grail..

This is all a lead-in to the pissing match in-progress between two groups of web developers. It pits tables against CSS (cascading style sheets). The prevailing wisdom has been tables are bad for you--bad for the environment. Using table is like smoking cigarettes... in a nursery school. CSS is touted as a much more elegant and controllable method (even though it isn't) of design. In 2009 only a schlemiel would use tables...
And then he proceeds to compile a laundry list of the largest most unbreakable sites around--and they're all using tables! Ron Garret adds a little fuel to the fire with point-by-point examples worthy of a closing argument on Law & Order (though on an otherwise awful looking page) showing CSS break where tables thrive.

http://www.appscout...._tables_ver.php#more

The blog entry is pretty brief and points to the following essays arguing for using tables or css:



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