[Webpro] tablelessness

[r937]

> What are the compelling arguments, in the current climate,
> for abandoning tables?

well, i should think this would have been pretty clear from the way this
discussion has evolved

it gets you closer to the semantic purity of html that you will need for a wider
range of user agents

to say nothing of making life just a bit easier on yourself

i mean, in this day and age who in his right mind really wants to maintain web
pages that contain code like this --

<table WIDTH="750" BGCOLOR="#000033" CELLPADDING="6" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0">
<tr><td><a HREF="/home/"><img SRC="/Images/home.gif" ALT="logo" BORDER="0"
WIDTH="120" HSPACE="6" HEIGHT="40" VSPACE="0"></a></td>
<td WIDTH="1200"><big><big><b><font
color="#B0B0FF">Welcome to XYZ Corp</font></b></big></big></td></tr>
</table><table WIDTH="100%" CELLPADDING="6" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0">
<tr VALIGN="top"><td><img SRC="/Images/1pix_clr.gif" WIDTH="120" HSPACE="0"
HEIGHT="6" VSPACE="0"></td>
<td ROWSPAN="3"><img SRC="/Images/1pix_clr.gif" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" HEIGHT="90"
VSPACE="0"></td>
<td><img SRC="/Images/1pix_clr.gif" WIDTH="5" HSPACE="0" HEIGHT="6"
VSPACE="0"></td></tr>
<tr VALIGN="top"><td ALIGN="center" class="onpurple" WIDTH="120">

when one could instead just have this --

      <h1>Welcome to XYZ Corp</h1>


the defence rests, your honour


rudy
http://r937.com/