[ale] CSS hell

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 17:54, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> You said I was modifying HTML and adding "extra messy HTML tags" 

I said no such thing.  You just read it that way.  I simply stated that
both examples worked, your's was just larger (more text, bytes, etc) and
(imho) yucky to code.

> when in reality I didn't change a single line of HTML. Plus, your
> unfamiliarity with CSS has caused you refute your own argument. 

You may be on to something here, I'll admit that I don't sit around all
day typing html for a living.  I did however go through a very related
exercise a few years ago that proved to me the worthlessness of css and
the value of tables.  Perhaps css has improved since those days, but
heck tables still work and work well.  

Google shows that the css and table folks have been fighting this out
for a while... i've got better things to do than specialize on html
standards, i just go with what works. :) 

-Jim P.