I know this whole thing is did to death already... but I just read some of
this, and it makes me think.
I suspect that a lot of the table based layout enthusiasts are people who made
a switch (partial even) from desktop publishing. Ron mentioned he did, and I
have some clients that have websites built in tables that think like the
webpage is a printed page. Most of them never look at code at all, they just
use Dreamweaver or something, and they want their content to sit on a page and
not move, the text to be the same size that they said it was going to be, and
look the same way to everyone... just like a book/brochure/what-have-you.
I do desktop publishing as much as web development, and learned how to make
websites in tables initially (in school, before professional work), but I see a
huge divide in the thinking behind the mediums, and having a creative
comparison between the two is like comparing video to a postcard.
As far the need for change on your websites being, maybe every five years, I
think that has to do with your not being in the professional realm, and not
having demanding clients. But if I had a couple hundred pages, and my clients
said they changed their logo or banner or something, I would be scared to make
the change in tables. And the idea of a webpage being there forever and living
on after we die... it's only gonna live as long as the server is maintained,
and someone has to do that. I would rather make something that any forward
thinking web developer could take out of my hands an run into the future with
after I die.
I do a lot of clean up in table based layouts for clients, and even though I
know how, it's alot easier to work in code written with semantic <div> tags.
I wonder, Ron, do you use a WYSIWYG editor to make your tables? Or do
you get in the code and type in you <td> & <tr> tags?
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