- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:24:01 +0300
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@niksula.hut.fi>, www-style@w3.org
On Thursday 21 February 2002 19:03, Henri Sivonen wrote: | On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 04:21 , Vadim Plessky wrote: | > I hope my "should" was meaning that you *can* use CSS2 tables in | > HTML, but | > that's not recommended. | | But why? | | I know "layout tables" aren't very popular here, but: | | What's wrong with the CSS2 table layout model compared to CSS | positioning? Isn't it easier to create scalable and stretchy layouts | using the table model? It seems to me that it is more difficult to | create scalable layouts using CSS positioning. well, than it's a problem with CSS positioning. It seems this was recognized on the list some time ago. | | IMO, moving from strechy tables to pixel-based positioning just | because layout tables are considered harmful is going out of the | frying pan into the fire. Indeed, for now, for commercial site development - you are forced to use tables in most cases. But I believe we are here to change that! (for the future) P.S. pixel-based positioning is indeed not a right way to go -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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