- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 10:45:14 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 6:41a -0800 12/22/98, Gordon Worley wrote: >Hello, > > Although discouraged, I continue to use tables to layout pages. >This works fine is you design your tables carefully to downgrade gracefully >in Lynx and aural browsers, until you decide to change your tables. If >your site has 40 or 50 pages, all containing your layout table, the need to >make even the smallest change can become a huge task, even when an >automated script is written to do the work for you. Therefore, I think >that tables should be moved in the direction of frames, where each cell can >have its own source file. Ever hear of Server-Side Includes? :-) CNET's sites all use SSIs (content management by Vignette, IIRC). Just remember they impose a certain load on the server. -Walter
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