On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:39, Al Sparber wrote: > From: "John Allsopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So the use of tables appears to be associated strongly with invalid > > documents (and not only through poorly formed documents, but also > > through the use of invalid attributes associated with td and tr > > elements). > > > > In short, using tables is a very good way of raising the risk of > > invalid documents. > > With all due respect, that is not very good logic. So, someone > inexperienced enough to make an invalid table layout is going to float > right through the process of making a CSS-positioned layout? >
Well, no.. float right through.. I doubt, but they would at the very least minimise the chance of broken markup. The mess that is tables - and here I mean a bunch of tables for layout - can easily lead to broken markup, especially when you have to go back a re-jig something, whether is easier than CSS/P doesn't matter, the fact remains. The problem is that browsers happily render busted table markup quite well - they have to otherwise the web would just simply break - the up and coming developer never finds out about the missing </td> or that invalid attribute. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
