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Re: Seybold column: Why Tables for Layout Is Stupid

Subject: Re: Seybold column: Why Tables for Layout Is Stupid
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:02:36 -0500

Ned Bedinger wrote:


BTW, do distributed CSS files load more reliably than nested HTML tables?


Interesting question. I use both nested HTML tables and CSS in my web pages and I've been thinking about moving away from nested tables toward more CSS. Since I host my own domain, I have control over where the CSS files reside, so I have yet to encounter a reliability problem (except when I loaded the wrong CSS file once....it wasn't pretty). There are a few websites that I know of which rely totally on CSS for layout rather than tables (www.vermont.com <http://www.vermont.com> comes to mind). It is my understanding that website development and content development are accomplished at different locations and yet their pages load quickly and with few, if any, reliability problems.

Yet, this is only one web site. It would be interesting to learn the pros and cons of nest tables versus CSS and how that may affect technical content development.

Al

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Re: Seybold column: Why Tables for Layout Is Stupid: From: Mike Starr
Re: Seybold column: Why Tables for Layout Is Stupid: From: Ned Bedinger

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