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I'll stick with CSS. I've never once had to place CSS items out of order that is a ridiculous statement. There is a place for tables from time to time but once
by jneal 18y ago
I'll stick with CSS. I've never once had to place CSS items out of order that is a ridiculous statement. There is a place for tables from time to time but once you actually "understand" CSS, life becomes much easier. I think the problem with most people is, they are told to use CSS, but without guidance they might not understand the core and basics.
- unalone 18y agoHis argument that you could take expert code and accidentally break it without much effort at all is a pretty sound one. I've designed a lot of stuff in CSS and I'm debating whether it's worth just putting it all in a table and getting it over with.
- bprater 18y agoExxxactly. If it takes an expert to do CSS, it may be an indication that it wasn't created well.
- Klonoar 18y agoI'm not sure what to think of your comment, to be honest. It's not an issue of how CSS was created that would cause the scenario (need to be an expert for CSS) that you indicated, rather it's how CSS ended up being implemented by the various browser vendors.
- Jem 18y agoAnd Lisp, Arc, Python, C++, C, ASP.Net Lua, etc... they don't require skill and expertise? Is that because they weren't created well?
- axod 18y agoPlease paste an update to the example, that just 'behaves' like the table then? eg the background goes to the bottom, bad things don't happen depending on size of the content etc. I've never seen a css example that behaves like a table.
- axod 18y agoDon't just downmod me :/ Paste an example of css layout, that behaves like a table...
- lhorie 18y agoJust out of curiosity... why do you want something that is not a table but behaves exactly like a table? Isn't that what tables are for? I think starting from the premise that CSS (as it is currently implemented by major vendors) is a super set of tables, and as such, must do everything tables do is misguided. From my experience, the absolute need to use tables doesn't appear in every layout (for me, at least, it's rather rare), and pragmatic CSS developers tend to use tables only as a fallback when CSS / IE / whatever doesn't quite work. I've seen css examples that can't be done with tables, so I don't know exactly where we are trying to get with this line of reasoning.