On Thu, April 12, 2007 1:34 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > ... It's too bad, I love CSS, it > makes for really clean markup, but using it completely in place of > tables just isn't feasible right now without resorting to CSS > "tricks". > And using tricks is just as much against the spirit of CSS as using > tables for layout :) While straying even more OT than usual, I must chime in with "me too" I cannot count the number of times I've seen CSS purists pull out gnarly disgusting hacks, far worse than any nested table layout, to work around browser incompatibilities. It would be nice if CSS actually let designers specify what they need to specify. [Can you say 3-column layout with page footer?] And if browsers actually implemented CSS correctly... But, really, CSS is still lacking in what seems to me some basic fundamentals in terms of being able to say "put this thing here, and that thing there" and you end up resorting to all kinds of non-intuitive code to get the look you want... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
