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

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>From the perspective of a new person just learning does this mean that I
should use font tags in addition to CSS and tables in addition to
absolute positioning? The site I am working now has some small
JavaScript windows that open  to show the clients product. Should I
rethink this and make them whole pages that open with hyperlinks?
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Font tags are a mess (personal opinion) to maintain, and absolute
positioning technology is currently more trouble than it is worth to
work with currently.

Regarding the windows that open: try getting the opening windows to work
with both JavaScript and without JavaScript. It is not that hard. One
will be able to allow you control over the window size and offer a link
on the page for the customer to close the window without them searching
outside of the browser canvas for the [X] to kill/close the window.

The only thing you need to do for the close button is to not show it in
non JavaScript aware browsers. Nothing is more fun that see links that
absolutely and completely require JavaScript and clicking on them
multiple times before you figure you turned it off.

With a little thought this should not require too much extra effort, and
will satisfy about 12 percent of your visitors who choose to turn
JavaScript off in the browsers.
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