[thelist] A Writing on Why CSS should not be used for layout

[Will]

In his follow up article he admits he doesn't know much about CSS.  Is
it 2001 again?



On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Jack Timmons <jorachim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Volkan Özçelik <volkan.ozcelik at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm not aiming to start another flamewar.
>> I use CSS for layout, and I am 99% sure I will be using CSS for layout
>> unless something more robust, sound, semantically correct etc. comes.
>>
>> Having that said, I just want to mention an interesting point of view:
>>
>> http://www.flownet.com/ron/css-rant.html
>>
>> ... and yes CSS-3 supports table-layout which may relieve some of the pains
>> mentioned in the linked article.
>>
>> Just wanted to share.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
> I paid a lot of money in therapy in order to brainwash myself.
>
> I'm a champion of CSS layout. I'm not a CSS troll as this article describes,
> but there's always the itch in the back of my head that if I decided to grow
> hair, I wouldn't want to pull it out if I used basic tables for stuff.
>
> Now, all this traumatic stuff I've repressed has relapsed because of your
> articles.
>
> Joking aside, I'm still hoping that if I keep using CSS eventually the
> browser word will catch up. Yes, I am the type who's dated women in hopes
> they'd stop being crazy...so I guess it's just reflective of my personality.
>
> Thanks for sharing it, though, because it does make me wonder if I really
> shouldn't invlove them every now and then.
>
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