RE: Using font and tables vs. css and absolute positioning - was : JavaScript nonsense

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Adhering to strict HTML or transitional standard is all well and good.
It helps assure that your page will display in the browsers that your
visitors use. But, when you use only the *standard* in html authoring
you can lose out on a lot of opportunity.
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What sort of opportunity? Let's see, in the quote above, you just stated
that it assures that the page will display well in the browsers that
your visitors use.

Visitors = Customers
Customer = Sales
Sales = Profits

That seems like a great opportunity. It assumed here that pages that
display well make for happier customers than pages that don't display
well, and that happy customers are more prone to make a purchase than an
unhappy customer.

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Think of how many people were using frames before they were ever adopted
into W3C's standard.
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I do think about it. Frames were and still are for the most part ugly
and bad technology, besides being a royal pain in the arse to maintain.

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Think of how many people are using the "FONT" tag even after the W3C
thinks their a bad idea and deprecated them.
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Think of font as being a proto style sheet, only one where you if you
have a site with 1,000 pages, each page with 10 paragraphs, and you want
each of those paragraphs to use the Arial Font, and be just a tad
smaller than normal, you would only have to insert the font tag into the
web site, (calc-calc-calc) ==

10,000 Times.

Versus a Linked Cascading Style sheet where to change those 1,000 pages
each with 10 paragraphs to use the Arial font, and be just a tad smaller
than normal, you would have to change (calc-calc-calc) ==

One file, one time.

Even for smaller sites, consistent, uniform design is a WHOLE lat easier
using CSS on things like block level elements than tweaking each page by
hand.

FYI: I've had to go back on a site and do almost 40 pages where the
customer wanted the font style to not be just a little smaller, they
wanted it normal, and then they wanted no Arial, but Georgia, and then
they wanted all the paragraphs bold and the text aligned.

That is when I finally learned to thoroughly hate and detest the FONT
element. 
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