[thelist] What's worse? opinions wanted!!

[Simon Willison]

rudy wrote [*]:
> nested tables allow you much simpler control over what goes where and in
> particular you can have different amounts of cellpadding, etc, in order to
> space things out nicely 

However, using nested tables for this is a sure sign that you really 
need to look in to CSS a bit more. The CSS padding property is supported 
by all modern browsers, and even Netscape 4 can handle CSS margins well 
enough for the nested table to be replaceable with a single div with a 
margin specifying the amount of padding you want in the cell.

This is why people who work with the web on a daily basis are doing 
themselves a disservice by not learning CSS. Even if you don't start 
churning out pure CSS layouts (which can have their own failings) even 
learning a few CSS tricks can allow you to dump literally kilobytes of 
garbage markup from your HTML. Nested tables and spacer gifs are the key 
examples, but the more CSS you pick up the more you realise how truly 
bloated most site's HTML really is.

Cheers,

Simon

[*] This quote is out of context: I'm sure rudy already knows how to 
eliminate nested tables using CSS