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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, April 30 2003 @ 05:29 am EDT

It's an accessibility issue. They don't degrade well in other devices like PDAs and readers used by the blind. Tables were never meant for layout design purposes but were used this way for a very long time because the community and browers were slow to implement measures to separate content from design. Even today, it's still very tough to design without any tables used in the page layout.

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Authored by: Dirk on Wednesday, April 30 2003 @ 08:05 am EDT

While I agree with what you wrote, you could of course argue that a 3-column layout, like the one Geeklog uses, can be seen as some form of tabular data.

So, yes, it's a good idea to avoid tables for purely layout purposes but you shouldn't avoid them at all costs. The resulting <div> soup that can be found on some sites is often worse than a handfull of carefully placed tables. IMO, of course.

bye, Dirk

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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, April 30 2003 @ 01:08 pm EDT

Yes, I agree. Many think you have to eliminate tables completely and this is not the case either. When a person wants to display something the right tag should be used and and in some cases it means a table. Many people though including me still use them solely for layout. My reason is because it's still easier and not all the div attributes such as min-width have been implemented in all browsers.

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