On 2 May 2003, at 16:11, Darrell King wrote:

> Now, a Web site design: we have a single design template
> that is supposed to flex to accommodate an unknown amount
> of content depending upon which page it is used for.  CSS
> does allow for this - see the demo I set up earlier or one
> of the many similar examples around the Web  - but it does
> take more thought than when using tables.
> 
> To me, the question is whether the extra thought is
> because CSS is harder, or simply because we have years of
> experience using tables for layout and far less using CSS?
> 
> Does anyone remember the days when tables were first used
> for layout? Pre-WYSIWYG days, when they had to be coded by
> hand?  Seems to me I can remember floods of table-related
> questions passing through this list as little as 2-3 years
> ago Perhaps the current surge in CSS questions is just us
> designers struggling to learn something new...:).

BTW, I still code by hand. Much more efficient and 
reliable than WYSIWYNeverQuiteGetRight.

Tables are much easier to code by hand than pages 
involving CSS.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

> D
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Jones" <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>
> 
> It should be at least as powerful and easy to use. It is
> (maybe) as powerful, but it is very cumbersome to use.
> 
> I think the fundamental problem is that some people on the
> CSS standards teams have decided (for idiotic philsophical
> reasons, AFAI can see) that tables must be used only for
> tabular data. Coupled with their apparent (and to me,
> similarly idiotic and completely inappropriate) effort to
> somehow give HTML the exact positioning et al controls
> that hard copy media have, they're producing something
> that is unnecessarily hard to use. If your wordprocessor
> made you use low level positioning commands to do column
> or table layouts (the way CSS does), nobody would use
> either of those layouts in hard copy.


 

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