[thelist] Are you designing with CSS and web standards?
Sarah Sweeney
mr.sanders at designshift.com
Fri Mar 11 11:34:12 CST 2005
> It's a lottery whether your design will hit certain bugs; if it does,
> you can kiss your weekends goodbye. There are more hacks in CSS design
> than in table based design. How is that better for the web? You have to
> write conditional rules in your style sheets and hide them from
> different browsers - there is NO DIFFERENCE between this and code
> forking in JavaScript to support NN and IE in the old days.
The main difference, in my eyes, is that (with properly semantic HTML in
place) the CSS hacks you employ appear only once - in your CSS. When you
use tables for layout, the tables appear on every single page in your
site. Say you want to make a small change to the layout of the entire
site: if you've used semantic HTML and properly separated your content
and presentation, you only need to make a change to your CSS, instead of
having to change the markup of tables throughout your entire site. This
is where the major ROI of table-less design and development comes into
effect.
CSSZenGarden proves that you can make huge changes to the layout and
style of a site without making a single change to the HTML markup of
each individual page - this most definitely cannot be done if using
tables for layout.
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Sarah Sweeney :: Web Developer & Programmer
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Blog :: http://hardedge.ca
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