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"Not only that, the resulting table-based design HTML was an intuitive read." Wow, Stockholm syndrome can be really messy. It's likely possible to produce rea
by al2o3cr 12y ago
"Not only that, the resulting table-based design HTML was an intuitive read."
Wow, Stockholm syndrome can be really messy.
It's likely possible to produce readable table-based design, but the tools at the time most assuredly did NOT produce that. Nothing sucks like spending a couple hours figuring out which of the eleventy-billion inline-styled cells Dreamweaver has bumped to 2px too wide, shattering an entire image-sliced layout.
- unclebucknasty 12y agoIf you're talking Dreamweaver, auto-generated inline styles, and image slicing, I think it's safe to say that you're signing up for pain irrespective of what the output is. Still, finding a 2px misalignment would likely be a more masochistic exercise if you were wading through nested divs with no clear grid layout vs. nested tables. But, I think your complaint is with the tool itself. Maybe that's why I sincerely know of no web devs who have implemented a serious project with Dreamweaver. My personal (brief) experience with it was that any support for real separation of concerns was so lacking that whether it generated tables vs. CSS was the least of my worries.