>> Because they were used like that, shouldn't serve as justification to do >> so today. >> >> Sure, I have used them too (last time 2002 by the way), but I think it's >> really, really time to move on. Browsers even start to support CSS 3 >> columns... > > Apart from the accessibility issue which you mentioned (which I'm > certainly taking seriously), the statement that "it's really, really > time to move on" isn't justification for not using a tables.
Yes, this is just my personal opinion as being a web developer and it wasn't meant to be offensive. > holds tremendous benefits and power, tables are still extremely useful > and shouldn't be dismissed arbitrarily. As you know Klaus, I'm very open > to your advice (as I've requested it offlist on a couple of occasions) > but I'm the type of person that needs a good rationale for using or > dropping something. Give me something to work with. Unfortunately I can't imagine anything more important than accessibility. If I can't convince you (or anybody else) with that I'll certainly give up and won't bother you again with my opinions about that topic. It is offtopic here anyway. Oned little addendum: I said somewhere else before in this thread, that if you need something to be rendered as a table - which I assume you meant with "extremely useful" - you can tell the browser to do so via CSS. Of course I'm not talking about rebuilding a table with divs, which also makes no sense and of course I'm only talking about tables for layout. -- Klaus _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
