On Tuesday 17 April 2007 8:14 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 18:53 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:40 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > BTW, any web developer worth his or her salt with a reasonable amount > > > > of practice can make CSS layouts that resize as well as table based > > > > layouts everyday of the week. I will refer you to > > > > http://www.csszengarden.com/ > > > > > > Only with hacks. > > > > Using tables for layout *is* a hack. A common one, but still a hack. > > No, it's old school, the only way to do complex layout in the past. At > least tables are backward and forward compatible. CSS is only > semi-forward compatible. Using a semantic data structure for tabular data as a layout language? That's a hack. It was a hack that was the only way to accomplish many things in 1997, but that doesn't make it any less of a hack. No, CSS is not perfect. Far from it. Of course, designers who still, in 2007, think they're working in a print medium are equally far from perfect. They could all use improvement, but let's not pretend that using a chisel as a screwdriver isn't a hack just because it happens to have a flat end. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
