Stevio said:
> Does anyone agree that we are abusing the use of CSS (square
> pegs in round holes?) with the way we force it to do things that it
> perhaps
> was not really designed for? Are floats really meant to be used for column
> design? If they are then why are there oodles of pages on the net about
> getting them to work right. We never had this problem with tables ;-)
>

I think we actually agree on this point Steve, but we are approaching the
issue from vastly different perspectives.

What I contend is this: (1) CSS is not up to the job of imitating tables
based layouts, (2) Table based layout are worse, and (3) The problem is
that we have a visual design expectation we are comfotable with that is
wrong for the medium.

I say the solution lies in design that uses the strengths of the medium
and the tools at our disposal instead of designing like it's 1997, in
other words: let's revisit the design.


kind regards
Terrence Wood.

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