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Well, tables for layout are necessarily in one very specific case. Namely, coding HTML emails, where CSS support is pretty horrible and (for some reason only kn
by CM30 8y ago
Well, tables for layout are necessarily in one very specific case. Namely, coding HTML emails, where CSS support is pretty horrible and (for some reason only known to them), Microsoft decided that they'd use Microsoft Word's rendering engine for Outlook.
Yeah, it's screwed up, and god knows what the accessibility of these things is like because of it. Someone needs to start a Zeldman esque web standards push for that media too.
- josephg 8y agoThankfully HTML emails can and should contain a plain text version of their content. Plain text is extremely accessible.
- Grumbledour 8y agoYeah, HTML emails are really a sad state of affairs. So many basic CSS things wont work there consistently. You don't need to even think about position or float when you got trouble setting colors. I actually felt HTML mails were finally coming along and getting better standard support until Microsoft decided to use Words engine instead of IE/Edge. Since then, all is lost on that front.