John Allsopp wrote: > Paul, > >> Hang on now. There's nothing about the use of table markup per se >> that leads one to err more frequently. > > on the contrary, actual research suggests very strongly that there is. > > I have found a very high correlation between malformed documents and > the use of tables (with the errors occurring in direct association > with table code).
I'd say that people who rely heavily on tables are the ones who obviously do not care about standards. So, IMHO, the correlation between malformed documents and table layouts only shows that these authors do not care for the quality of their markup. If I had to create and publish a complex table tomorrow, it would be *clean*; not because I know what I'm doing, but because I validate my pages... I think it'd be interesting to find out about the ratio table/table-less layouts among documents submitted to the Validator. Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
