>I still see many famous and really relevant websites with >a dirty table-based soup layout. I wonder wether was lazy, or if he didn't >know that he could do it with divs and CSS or if he knew that this kind of >layout was viable to do with CSS.
Most of the sites you speak of, I imagine, are most likely huge enterprise level sites (ebay is the classic example) which are run by expensive backend dedicated software which pulls the data out of databases, and, until they update the entire backend, they're locked into tables and tag soup on the front end. These types of sites aren't done in Dreamweaver. ;) I have seen some larger companies that have finally deployed tableless compliant sites now that IE7 has been released. I expect we'll be seeing more of those over the next year or so, since most larger companies were waiting for that event to happen before investing in large scale backend upgrades (not that it gave us all the compliance and ease of development that we had hoped for!) Re tables for LAYOUT- nope, not needed. Tables do occasionally come in handy for tabular data though. -- Ciao for now, bj mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bitchslappin.net - Taking a Hard Look at the Business of Politics http://greenspeak.org - Small scale local environmental action http://kickasswebdesign.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
