It looks much like trying to force/bend CSS where it should not go. The purpose of <table> is for “tabular data” and is being referred to as such in all modern specifications (i.e. html 5).
Changing display css attributes to make div look like a cell? It’s most funny when the css-based markup has a very similar structure to an ordinary <table> but with <td> replaced with divs.
Common people. In terms of dom structure and css, thinking out-of-the-box and as a proof of concept, you should be able to create the same effect as a <table><tr><td> with <strong><cite><blockquote> – it’s just a matter of changing the display attributes to “table-*” and you’re done. But what for ?
I’d gladly go past css 2 and dump ie6, but I really miss the times, when I’ve prepared all layouts in tables. I had my tricks to make them look the same in all browsers and IE-modes. Why I miss that? Because it took me half the time to code it (even though the html tables were nested as hell) and it ALWAYS worked the way I wanted without much trouble.
Now we have a beautiful, short, semantic markup (invisible feature, only for devs) and broken-with-each-version-of-ie-and-firefox layouts that get awful (visitors, visible feature).
It kinda reminds me of the difference between a mac and a pc – with a pc you get compatibility with anything, option to choose and pick from many vendors and technologies. With a mac, you have one platform, one vendor and one seamless technology. With the all-compatible pc came drivers, conflicts, hangs and head scratching. With the mac comes a peaceful mind and expectable results even though mac os is based on unix, and is more ambiguous if you want to hack it.
Artur Bodera
It looks much like trying to force/bend CSS where it should not go. The purpose of <table> is for “tabular data” and is being referred to as such in all modern specifications (i.e. html 5).
Changing display css attributes to make div look like a cell? It’s most funny when the css-based markup has a very similar structure to an ordinary <table> but with <td> replaced with divs.
Common people. In terms of dom structure and css, thinking out-of-the-box and as a proof of concept, you should be able to create the same effect as a <table><tr><td> with <strong><cite><blockquote> – it’s just a matter of changing the display attributes to “table-*” and you’re done. But what for ?
I’d gladly go past css 2 and dump ie6, but I really miss the times, when I’ve prepared all layouts in tables. I had my tricks to make them look the same in all browsers and IE-modes. Why I miss that? Because it took me half the time to code it (even though the html tables were nested as hell) and it ALWAYS worked the way I wanted without much trouble.
Now we have a beautiful, short, semantic markup (invisible feature, only for devs) and broken-with-each-version-of-ie-and-firefox layouts that get awful (visitors, visible feature).
It kinda reminds me of the difference between a mac and a pc – with a pc you get compatibility with anything, option to choose and pick from many vendors and technologies. With a mac, you have one platform, one vendor and one seamless technology. With the all-compatible pc came drivers, conflicts, hangs and head scratching. With the mac comes a peaceful mind and expectable results even though mac os is based on unix, and is more ambiguous if you want to hack it.