[UPHPU] Validation

[jtaber]

Tyler Gee wrote:
>> I have yet to see something you can do with a div that you can't do
>> with a
>> table, so I would argue that there is at least as much control with a
>> table as there is with a div.
>
> I would tend to agree, but I would rewrite your sentence to be, "I
> have yet to see something you can do with a table that you can't do
> with a div, so I would argue that there is at least as much control
> with a div as there is with a table."
>
> And since one is standards-compliant and one is not, I would opt for
> the standards compliant.
>
> And you were neither top- nor bottom-posting. :)
>

I'm a big believer in rules of thumb and following the 80/20 pareto
principal and finding the sweet spots - given that CSS offers advantages
but browser issues, is there a set of 20% CSS commands that might buy
80% of the compatibility benefit - ie. might it be worth using CSS for
fonts and colors that will be mostly compliant with the browsers while
knowing that certain alignment commands might require more testing and
browser work arounds and might be easier to do with tables?   Has there
been any good comparisons on this ?  My old OReilly Web Design in a
Nutshell shows what html commands work with the different browsers - is
there something similar for the CSS commands ?