On issues like this, I often look at the markup of the W3C (
http://www.w3.org/ ). The W3C homepage _does use tables_ for layout.
> 2) "Tables are the only real way of laying out in a grid-like manner, at
> least at this time." -- support for tables (only elements, no attributes).
By doing this, we still get full standards compliance _and_ backwards
compatibility. I haven't seen any other method of "grid-like" layout
that works across platforms.
> 6) With tables, altering layout (particularly ordering) of parts of the
> page will be time-consuming, as it could mean going through the html and
> re-ordering where <tr><td>s appear and suchlike.
The layout of the pages would not change on a day-to-day or even
month-to-month basis, if designed correctly in the first place.
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Micah Harwell
Industrial Techware
http://www.industrialtechware.com/
