Rick Faircloth wrote: > Your example below is impressive, Georg, for sure. > > But just look at the CSS hoops you had to jump through just to get > what looks like a simple table. > > Why go to so much trouble avoid using <table> ? Just because you can > or is there a more compelling reason? > > I'm relatively new to the CSS scene, so these are sincere questions.
In addition to the reasons I've given in the relevant article... <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_22.html> ...it's because... 1: that type of content doesn't fit the description "tabular data", I just wanted it to appear in a certain way. Its appearance can be changed and restyled (for different media for instance) without touching the actual document, which is impossible if a table had been used. 2: one day a version of that MS-excuse for a browser may support the relevant CSS, and not be in need of proprietary MS-garbage like IE-expressions for simulating standard CSS. Maybe IE8 (with an opt-in)... 3: by always pushing and testing what can and can not be done with CSS today to the limits across browser-land in test-cases like that, I learn what choices I have and how to make things work whenever I need to for real-world cases. Such knowledge sure comes handy at times :-) regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
