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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