[ale] html

[Christopher R. Curzio]

That's easy: Separation of style from content. 

HTML provides the content of the page, and CSS determines the style and
layout. Tables are a nasty hack when used to lay out a page, and are
horribly messy code with which to work. Older browsers all render tables
slightly differently, too. Granted, older browsers have nasty CSS support,
but that's what happens when you continue to write for an obsolete
platform. 

HTML was designed as a language more for logical markup, and less for
physical layout. Structuring information isn't the same thing as designing
a look, and HTML is ill-suited for controlling features of presentation.
That's why a lot of content-styling tags are NOT actually part of the HTML
standard. 

Tables were created for tabular information, not site layout. 

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Thus Spake Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>:
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:42:40 -0400


> 
> 
> Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> > You can also rig up a div setup in CSS to have two divs side-by-side.
> > Put the table in one div, and the content in the second one. It works
> > like tables without the mess. 
> > 
> > I recommend you ditch tables altogether and just use divs from the get
> > go. Tables kinda suck these days. 
> 
> Reasons why they suck?
> 
> 
> 
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> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> 
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