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Old 08-11-2005, 08:38 PM  
galleryseek
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Originally Posted by SPeRMiNaToR
tables aren't obsolete. sometimes you need to use them to overcome bugs in the way IE uses css. i.e. the 3 pixel bug
nah not quite, there's always some sort of fix that'll do the trick.

css has a number of advantages over tables for layouts. tables DO have a purpose, and that's just to show tabular data.

- a lot less coding for the spiders to crawl
- css with xhtml = standards compliant
- better for things like screen readers

and there are more, but these are the major ones.
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