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Grids would generally be worse - no semantic info like 'thead' or 'axis' in grids/divs. That said, I'm a bootstrap span fan and don't like this extended naming
by mgkimsal 13y ago
Grids would generally be worse - no semantic info like 'thead' or 'axis' in grids/divs. That said, I'm a bootstrap span fan and don't like this extended naming from the article - reminds me of YUI grids from several years ago.
But hey, "they're' not tables - tables are evil!", right?
RANT: I worked with some people ... sheesh - almost a decade ago that proclaimed "tables are depreciated" (I'm pretty sure they meant 'deprecated') and spent days having a team of people convert tablular data from Excel spreadsheets in to bloated DIV-hell for IE5 and NS4 browsers. That's been my worst experience with table-haters, but it stuck with me.
- andybak 13y agoCould you not just send them a link to the specs? (and a dictionary)
- mgkimsal 13y agoI didn't last too long there, and thankfully I wasn't on that team directly. Yeah, pointing out things like 'facts' with 'evidence' doesn't make you a 'team player' very often. Yes, there's the issue that I'm the new guy, but really... there are some things that are objectively true. HTML tables have never been 'deprecated', have their place, and are perfectly fine. DIV-based layouts are fine too, but knowing when to each is key, and displaying hundreds of pages of spreadsheet-style data with inlined styles for each div is... just insane. They had to do inlined styles on each div because some version of IE didn't handle the formatting they wanted properly - some alignment issue - when I pointed out that table cells already supported that formatting... I think that's when I was no longer required to be involved in that project.