Well, I for one have several more years experience making layouts that way than with CSS. They also tend to be more forgiving - of overwidth content for example. I also think table-ing up a (non-trivial) layout can be a more intiutive process than doing the same in CSS. Wrapping your head around floats and negative margins is arguably harder than understanding columns and a shim row. I dont think I'm alone in thinking that CSS layout is harder than table layout - where the result is just measured in a visual comparison to the design comp. You need more incentive to make it worthwhile. The ability to reuse code and radically re-organize a layout by just switching a class is definately one of them. But you'd need a crystal ball to protect yourself from every possible change. At the end of the day, CSS styles markup and your options are limited by the markup you've got available.
Apologies if I'm just feeding the trolls. Sam On 9/23/06, David Hucklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:06:44 -0400, Marc wrote: > > > >So yeah, I reverted to tables. I'm so tired of fighting with CSS, > >browser differences, and a much lower productivity rate than I used > >to have, that at this point I'm starting not to care. I thought I > >had planned out the css on this site well enough to be able to > >institute changes fairly easily, and I was horribly wrong. CSS is > >killing my business... > > > Interesting. How is it that you find tables easy, and I do not? > > I began my first web class four years ago. Having used some SGML > years ago for documentation on IBM mainframes, I thought HTML > would be easy. Not so! The class was all about tables! By the time > I was finished, I couldn't figure out what the heck a page was about > from looking at the source, buried as the content was by HTML tags > and acres of attributes and spacer gifs and ... > > The very last exercise did not explicitly call for tables for layout. > So I did it in CSS. Target browsers were NN4 and IE5 Windows at > 800 x 600. > > I just revisited this exercise in IE7 - and it still works. I did not > find it easy, but it was certainly, for me, not harder than tables. > Furthermore, I see that I can read and update either content or style > without the one massively impacting the other. > > What, I have to ask, is easy about tables? > > Cordially, > David > -- > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
