[Pmwiki-users] pmwiki-0.6.beta8 released

[Thomas -Balu- Walter]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:44:36AM -0800, Steven Leite wrote:
> 
> > Take a look at this page. All CSS layouts and links tot other layout
> > 'depots'
> > http://www.mentalized.net/cssdepot/
> >
> > enough said about tables already...
> 
> Forgive me if I missed any prior threads, but, what's so bad about tables?
> I use them extensively for layout.  Why is it bad?  I think it's a heck of a
> lot simpler than CSS, but maybe that's just my naievity about CSS.

The CSS way is how HTML pages should look: Clean, structured and
layouted using CSS. 

Tables were the only solution for the designers in times where there was
no or bad CSS support, but this is changing rapidly. Using nested tables
gives a complicated and unstructured code that is hard to maintain.

The "new way" is to use tables when you need them as tables and not for
layouting.

e.g. have a look at my homepage at http://www.b-a-l-u.de/
I could have done that using tables, but then the source would be filled
with all the additional table tags and sometimes even the order of
elements would need to be changed.

Using CSS as I am trying at the moment makes the source code very clean.
I am only using <div> and <h*>-tags to structure it, some paragraphs and
so on. If you have a browser without CSS support (or even without table
support as lynx e.g.) it will still display fine - not so nice anymore
though ;)

     Balu
PS: The navigation on top is done using lists (<ul>) also - since the
menu points are listed and not "tabloid" data