[UPHPU] More CSS frustration

[Joshua Simpson]

On 1/17/07, Mac Newbold <mac at macnewbold.com> wrote:
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> Everyone wants to downplay tables, even to the point of starting rumors
> that they're going to be deprecated at some time, but the fact of the
> matter is that browser have really good and much more consistent support
> for tables than for floating and CSS1 and CSS2, and have had it for a very
> long time. It is really easy to write clean html with a bit of CSS and
> have it work without any hacks or contortions across all major browsers.
> Where I have to make good maintainable code as quickly and efficiently as
> possible every day, I haven't found a good way to make a living trying to
> make them all "pure css". But everyone is in different situations, and the
> same answer isn't always right given that we all have different factors
> and priorities involved in our decisions.


I fully agree.  I mean, if you have to use a variety of CSS hacks just to
get something resembling cross browser support for the standard, then, well,
isn't it more of a hack than tables?  Not less?

I'm all for using CSS to standard, and using tables only for tabular data.
But if I have to add a variety of hacks just to get my site to work cross
browser, I'll pass, thanks.