[UPHPU] Validation

[Connor Boyack]

On 6/6/06, Mac Newbold <mac at macnewbold.com> wrote:
>
> I think I might disagree with you on this, by saying that layout is one of
> the perfectly valid and reasonable purposes of tables. In fact, I could
> say that marking up tabular, spreadsheet-like data was the exact purpose
> of a table, so they are _purely_ for layout, but I don't know if I can go
> that far. In any case, I may just have to agree to disagree on this point.
>
>
Layout is horrendous for tables... In days gone by, it was an accepted and
common way of doing a layout.  But all it really does it add bloat to your
markup, and restrict you from making any design changes.  Hence the
popularity and adaptability of sites featured at the CSS Zen Garden - using
the same markup, you can have completely different layouts.  Here at Utah
Interactive we just released the new design for Utah.gov - a re-design that
we saved countless hours on, because the previous one was CSS-based, so
there was very little tweaking and coding.  CSS is a time saver, both for
development, and end-user download.  Tables (for layout), spacer GIFs, and
tag soup should be flushed down a toilet.

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Connor Boyack
WebVid Productions
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