Thread: CSS vs Tables
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Old 01-18-2009, 06:06 PM  
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Originally Posted by crockett View Post
http://thinkvitamin.com/design/css/t...in-css-layout/


The next version of FF and IE8 will work with the new CSS tables.. As I said if tables sucked so bad, then why did they decide to add them to CSS.
They're just talking about the display property, and the way you can make things display like table cells. It's used in order to completely remove tables from markup so that you can mark up your content semantically correct and still get the grid like appearance / behaviour of tables. Oddly enough, the article you posted is explaining a way to completely get rid of all those pesky table, tr, and td tags in favor of semantic tags and css.

The only thing this article is really talking about in regards to 'tables coming to css' is IE 8's upcoming support for these properties that have been around for a while.

It might be wise to know what your talking about before trying to debate w/ someone that is in the trenches and using web standards every day on any serious level.

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