Tables & CSS. Designing the Web.
| June 30, 2007 | Posted by The Futtock under Other Stuff |
As a web designer since early 90s I have seen the internet develop pretty much from birth to web 2.0. The funniest thing I have seen is the bitch slapping HTML tables have had over the past few years.
Before CSS they where pretty much the only way to layout a web page, and I as well as others pushed them to the limit.
These days CSS does the job, but is it still okey to use tables for such work? I go on the old, “If it aint’ broke don’t fix it†moto and still quite often use table for layout.
This is especially so on one-off websites where there will be little change in design. CSS is best used when a site is going to change look and feel and needs that extra flexibility. Otherwise tables are still a good option, and deserve perhaps a round of applause for hold the line until CSS came along, and are still great fall backs, held in reserve.
Although I hate having to wade through endless lists of styles in style sheets just to find why some border is not the same as another border, CSS was the right move. Do not get me wrong, CSS is a superior tool for layout, but I just plain like good old tables and I wanted to give them a little hand.
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