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Tables vs. CSS - A fight to the death

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Hola Sitepoint! That’s right. In much the same way as that ulcer you get every time after gorging in those yummy chili tacos, I am publishy again. This time courtesy of Sitepoint (utmost thanks go out to Georgina and the rest of the editorial staff for a great job).

This piece, Tables vs. CSS - A match to the death is a case study on Table versus CSS based coding, trying to reproduce the same basic design to a “t”. This time around I dropped the “we” authorial slant for a less formal, more personal first person approach (I did this because Sitepoint’s submission rules state so, but ended up liking the freedom and personal-osity).

I hope this article serves as an interesting exploration of a highly subjective problem. I actually wrote it a month ago, but in view of recent commentary and the shitstorm that ensued, I think the timing for its publication couldn’t be better.

Update: This article has just won the “Article of the Month” award at Sitepoint. Thanks a lot people!

sergio on May 27, 2004  permalink

Comments

27 May 10:25
Scrivs spake thus:

*cough*check the sitepoint link*cough*

27 May 10:39
sergio spake thus:

Fixed. Thanks!

27 May 11:29
Alex Giron spake thus:

Muy bueno el articulo… great article… It is defenitly easier to modify a site made out of css than tables.

27 May 20:33
sosa spake thus:

Thay’s an incredible article, Sergio.
I’d like to see a third match with an hybrid (CSS styled tables) solution.

28 May 13:26
Peter spake thus:

CSS styled tables are an abomination to CSS standard to make table designed sites, CSS enabled.

29 May 17:29
Salamastre spake thus:

Great article sergio.

So in conclusion, I should use tables?

03 Jun 06:23
Bill Creswell spake thus:

I guess Salamastre should use tables for IE5.0 design. IE 5.0 has a bigger audience that Mozilla, by Google Zietgeist reports.

Figure in some more time to fix the layout for IE 5.0.

04 Jun 00:37
X-Wes spake thus:

Congratulations on a great article, Serg!

And by the way…

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