http://www.codymays.net/content/2006/04/04/css-naked-day/ The CPUID of my brain... Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:57:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.codymays.net/content/2006/04/04/css-naked-day/comment-page-1/#comment-12725 Teddy Beckstrom Fri, 28 May 2010 13:37:01 +0000 http://www.codymays.net/content/2006/04/04/css-naked-day/#comment-12725 The way I see it, and what I also got from reading those two articles, is that the ONLY way the table was promoted was as an easier way to do stuff that's really really hard to do right with CSS, and might need to be rebuilt with a smaller addition. Table-style columns (equal height, background images) spring to mind. They were not promoting going back to all tables, nor going back to all tables but with CSS instead of font tags. They were promoting using table tags as a last-resort-workaround for a very limited set of setups until CSS3 gets implemented, so they can get the job done today. It may be evil evil evil to some of you, but it's that or five more hours writing code and testing across browsers. The way I see it, and what I also got from reading those two articles, is that the ONLY way the table was promoted was as an easier way to do stuff that’s really really hard to do right with CSS, and might need to be rebuilt with a smaller addition. Table-style columns (equal height, background images) spring to mind. They were not promoting going back to all tables, nor going back to all tables but with CSS instead of font tags. They were promoting using table tags as a last-resort-workaround for a very limited set of setups until CSS3 gets implemented, so they can get the job done today. It may be evil evil evil to some of you, but it’s that or five more hours writing code and testing across browsers.

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