So, I’m going to give up and use tables. It’s going to take me all of 45 minutes to undo the last two weeks worth of CSS work. I’m going to launch my site. And then, I’m going to go and get a donut.
I thought this war was over and that pragmatics won. But it seems that web designers are still struggling to make this thing work. What a waste of time.
John Gruber recently pointed out the Give Up And Use Tables timer,
We’ve scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it’s 47 minutes. When your time is up, we’ll even give you the table code you need. Take three minutes to build a table. And ten minutes to get a donut. Bill the client for an hour. Done.
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Hi Camarade Bloody !
What is your opinion now ? Can't you do without non-evil table ?
BTW, could you apply 'justify' to your paragraph-style ? It would help for turbo-quick-reading
FAb20 February 09 at 1:28 pm
Hi,
My opinion is the same as before. Use what's the most productive and works across all browsers, that is: tables.
We would have to wait for CSS 3 to have a fine grained control over layout, but having it supported across all browser will take a lot of time anyway, so tables are here to stay.
As far as justification is concerned, this is not a thing to do on the web, because browser lacks auto-hyphenation, that would adds unaesthetic spaces.
Fred Brunel20 February 09 at 1:54 pm
Hi,
My opinion is the same as before. Use what's the most productive and works across all browsers, that is: tables.
We would have to wait for CSS 3 to have a fine grained control over layout, but having it supported across all browser will take a lot of time anyway, so tables are here to stay.
As far as justification is concerned, this is not a thing to do on the web, because browser lacks auto-hyphenation, that would adds unaesthetic spaces.
Fred Brunel20 February 09 at 1:54 pm
Hi Camarade Bloody !
What is your opinion now ? Can't you do without non-evil table ?
BTW, could you apply 'justify' to your paragraph-style ? It would help for turbo-quick-reading
FAb20 February 09 at 6:28 pm
Hi,
My opinion is the same as before. Use what's the most productive and works across all browsers, that is: tables.
We would have to wait for CSS 3 to have a fine grained control over layout, but having it supported across all browser will take a lot of time anyway, so tables are here to stay.
As far as justification is concerned, this is not a thing to do on the web, because browser lacks auto-hyphenation, that would add unaesthetic spaces.
Fred Brunel20 February 09 at 6:54 pm
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