On Sunday 02 July 2006 10:26, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > the function of a table is ordered presentation of data. Data is best > ordered and maintained in a database. And best presented by tables > generated from queries to the database. This is far easier than > manually entering/editing the tables in html. And much more > efficient. I am not a html guy, in fact, i loathe html - so i would > define a crappy website not in terms of whether the html/css follows > some standard or the other, but in terms of how simple it is to > update and maintain
Yes, tables are nice but Divs are the latest rage :P. Actually Divs are very good for positioning while tables are very good to actually place the data in a particular order. Sure you can do it with Divs but people still prefer tables to a larger extent. My thoughts on this issue is that, a site can either be standards complaint and break IE ( the major browser ) to a great deal or it can play nice with IE and still work correctly with browsers like Firefox, Mozilla, Opera etc... If you are a webdev and have even little experience developing websites professionally then you will know for sure that being idealistic( 100% standards compliant ) isn't going to get you anywhere cuz the client's going to dump ya before you can say "wait..." :P So being a pragmatist is gonna see that you survive. You need to have the right blend of standards compliance, hacks and dirty html to satisfy your clients ;) Disclaimer: My thoughts are my thoughts anybody not agreeing with them can keep their opinions to themselves >:) -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
