[Webpro] tablelessness

[Jason Van Pelt]

>> For me it's still a hack like tables were, although I'm not coding
layouts with tables anymore.
 
Mike (and whoever else wants to participate here),
      What made you decide to go completely tableless?  I had
experimented with tableless design for a while a few years ago and
honestly, it was pretty unsatisfying in the end.  It was difficult to
achieve the effects I wanted layout-wise, and consistency was a big
problem (browsers! bah!).  Needless to say, I learned a lot in my
experimentations, and my personal website (www.j-ink.com
<http://www.j-ink.com/> ) is still a remnant of those tableless days.
But I eventually settled on doing table hybrids.  CSS has cut down
drastically on the necessity for nested tables, only really necessary
for forms and true tabular data presentation at this point, as well as
total elimination of the blank.gif (which I always hated), font tags,
and much more efficient use of BR tags.
 
Evil, wicked, naughty font tags.
 
Anyway, I elaborated a bit more here
<http://www.j-ink.com/blog/2004/12/tables-and-css.html> , but I'd like
to hear some other opinions without going back to eric meyer's
css-discuss list where everyone is slightly, uh...  full of it.
 
j.
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