At 04:53 PM 1/18/2009 +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >If we all fell back to layout tables and minimal use of CSS, there would >be very little incentive for growth. <snip> >Layout tables will stay at 1998 level for a long time - probably for as >long as HTML is in regular use. Thus, they're stable enough by now and >those who wish can still use them. No progress in doing so though.
Oh, I totally agree -- and that's basically what I was saying in my last/previous post in this thread. I absolutely, wholeheartedly do encourage anyone/everyone who does use purely CSS layouts, but... well, take my "A Letter to an Imaginary Friend" site, which is a literary piece of mine. At *this* point, I just wouldn't trust myself, nor CSS standards, to transform it into a CSS layout, simply because I just don't see any guarantee that it would then last "forever" (which, only naturally, is important to me). On the other hand, if I keep the table layout, then at least I have some semblance of assurance that it will last a long, long time. But perhaps I digress, and perhaps am becoming repetitive -- and having just been admonished off-list for being "totally off-topic" (along with various other admonishments), my apologies if this has, indeed, been the case. I am truly grateful for this thread, though. Believe it or not, but it really did help allay some confusion for me. I think I'll keep my table layouts for the time being, if only because I do know that they *work*, and I also just don't feel that I know enough about CSS (yet) to do anything otherwise. I suppose my only wish would be that others see that there's nothing wrong in my choosing to do that (for myself), if that's what works for me -- I mean, it's not like my doing so puts a rope around the rest of you, holding you all back. Ron ;) Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
