Comments on: HTML Tables Are Not Evil! http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/ Insights about high-tech software and web business Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Roland Pater http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-87143 Roland Pater Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:07:54 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-87143 <p>"Float elements are not about layout, their primary use is for a block to float inside a text paragraph — like for images in a word processor document."<br><br>There you hit the nail on the head.</p> “Float elements are not about layout, their primary use is for a block to float inside a text paragraph — like for images in a word processor document.”

There you hit the nail on the head.

]]> By: Roland Pater http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-72026 Roland Pater Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:07:54 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-72026 <p>"Float elements are not about layout, their primary use is for a block to float inside a text paragraph — like for images in a word processor document."<br><br>There you hit the nail on the head.</p> “Float elements are not about layout, their primary use is for a block to float inside a text paragraph — like for images in a word processor document.”

There you hit the nail on the head.

]]> By: document management http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-51011 document management Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:25:53 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-51011 <p>well for me having a simply layout is great, specially google =), but if you visit my site you will see that it really has its own layout.</p> well for me having a simply layout is great, specially google =), but if you visit my site you will see that it really has its own layout.

]]> By: Tables vs CSS | Fred Brunel http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-42077 Tables vs CSS | Fred Brunel Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:24:49 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-42077 <p>[...] thought this war was over, and that pragmatics won. But it seems that web designers are still struggling to [...]</p> [...] thought this war was over, and that pragmatics won. But it seems that web designers are still struggling to [...]

]]> By: Jeff http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-29300 Jeff Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:00:21 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-29300 <p>boo! youre evil too! :)</p> boo! youre evil too! :)

]]> By: Charlie http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-6010 Charlie Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:54:26 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-6010 <p>As someone who has just put a toe in the water of web design using tables and CSS in Dreamweaver (gulp), I must confess that I find the puritanical tone of the ultra CSS fundamentalists quite scary. So, it's quite nice to find someone suggesting a little flexibility of attitude.</p> As someone who has just put a toe in the water of web design using tables and CSS in Dreamweaver (gulp), I must confess that I find the puritanical tone of the ultra CSS fundamentalists quite scary. So, it’s quite nice to find someone suggesting a little flexibility of attitude.

]]> By: Charlie http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-21662 Charlie Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:54:26 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-21662 <p>As someone who has just put a toe in the water of web design using tables and CSS in Dreamweaver (gulp), I must confess that I find the puritanical tone of the ultra CSS fundamentalists quite scary. So, it's quite nice to find someone suggesting a little flexibility of attitude.</p> As someone who has just put a toe in the water of web design using tables and CSS in Dreamweaver (gulp), I must confess that I find the puritanical tone of the ultra CSS fundamentalists quite scary. So, it’s quite nice to find someone suggesting a little flexibility of attitude.

]]> By: Fred Brunel http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-21661 Fred Brunel Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:35:15 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-21661 <p>Most commercial web sites are using table because it's easy to maintain coherency between browsers and because efforts and costs of development are low.<br><br>That's what we call constraints. It tooks years for browsers vendor to stabilize tables rendering and it will take years to do the same for CSS. In the meantime, we can still make sites with standards in mind but with embracing production constraints.</p> Most commercial web sites are using table because it’s easy to maintain coherency between browsers and because efforts and costs of development are low.

That’s what we call constraints. It tooks years for browsers vendor to stabilize tables rendering and it will take years to do the same for CSS. In the meantime, we can still make sites with standards in mind but with embracing production constraints.

]]> By: john http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-21660 john Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:43:14 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-21660 <p>Okay, so maybe I'm just being anecdotal, but I did a quick search and found a hell of a lot of sites using tables.<br><br><a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a><br><a href="http://Ebay.com">Ebay.com</a><br><a href="http://Linux.org">Linux.org</a><br><a href="http://Apple.com">Apple.com</a><br><a href="http://CNN.com">CNN.com</a><br><a href="http://NYTimes.com">NYTimes.com</a><br><a href="http://Google.com">Google.com</a><br><br>Maybe we should boycott these companies for supporting such terrible web design standards.<br><br>Kudos to Fred for speaking up.</p> Okay, so maybe I’m just being anecdotal, but I did a quick search and found a hell of a lot of sites using tables.

Amazon.com
Ebay.com
Linux.org
Apple.com
CNN.com
NYTimes.com
Google.com

Maybe we should boycott these companies for supporting such terrible web design standards.

Kudos to Fred for speaking up.

]]> By: Frederic Brunel http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Frederic Brunel Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:35:15 +0000 http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2006/08/tables-are-not-evil/#comment-434 <p>Most commercial web sites are using table because it's easy to maintain coherency between browsers and because efforts and costs of development are low.</p> <p>That's what we call constraints. It tooks years for browsers vendor to stabilize tables rendering and it will take years to do the same for CSS. In the meantime, we can still make sites with standards in mind but with embracing production constraints.</p> Most commercial web sites are using table because it’s easy to maintain coherency between browsers and because efforts and costs of development are low.

That’s what we call constraints. It tooks years for browsers vendor to stabilize tables rendering and it will take years to do the same for CSS. In the meantime, we can still make sites with standards in mind but with embracing production constraints.

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