Paul,
Hang on now. There's nothing about the use of table markup per se
that leads one to err more frequently.
on the contrary, actual research suggests very strongly that there is.
I have found a very high correlation between malformed documents and
the use of tables (with the errors occurring in direct association
with table code).
I guess that's what is one of the many annoying things about this
"debate". Its very subjective. This particular thread started when I
reported a strong factual correlation between tabled based pages and
invalid pages in research I am doing. From then on its been largely
handwaving and opinions.
The simple fact remains, that in my research into some of the biggest
and most popular Australian web sites, not a single site out of about
100 I have surveyed, which is table based has been valid. And the
errors in table based sites have been almost invariably associated
with the table markup.
The correlation is strong.
john
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