Less of a sudden demise - more of a slow death.
> From: Gary Rathbone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:23:52 +0000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: New HTML properties
>
> Any explanation on your opinion of their sudden demise ?
>
Future of tabular data is XML and style sheets. You can do everything you
want with style sheets in terms of tabular layout, and at the same time make
it comprehensible for basic browsers and text-readers for the visually
impaired etc (see WC3 guidelines for web accessibility), which recommends no
longer using tables...
This combined with the advantages of marking up data in a structured way (ie
separating content from presentation in the mark-up), in terms of re-use,
future proofing, and processing of the data with standard or custom tools,
means that it is getting very hard to justify the use of tables in the
creation of new sites over the use of style sheets.
Give it another 12-18 months and it will definitely be frowned upon. Just my
intuition - time will tell -:) Does anyone really like tables?
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