Rant about attitudes

  • I’m getting really sick and tired of being chastised (it’s really worse, but I’m just being nice because that’s the mood I’m in) for using “some unholy combination of tables and divs” on my site.
    I’m tired of people picking my site apart because it uses tables. It uses tables because of the (unholy) float bugs rampant in IE and because I want IE uses to see my site, despite the fact that I’ve switched for the time being to a gecko browser.
    Is that so wrong? Yeesh. I think some people here spend more time dissecting other people’s sites (when they weren’t asked to do so) than they do actually HELPING people use WordPress. Whether the person who is using WP has tables in his/her layout or not. What difference does it make? If it validates, then so what? Tables will be here for a long time. And so will IE, apparently. So unless the people doing the bellyaching want to redesign my site GRATIS, they can keep quiet about matters I’ve not asked about and HELP ME with matters I have asked about.
    Okay, I feel better now.

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  • if by call you mean “apply style rules too” then yes.
    CSS can be applied to any tag, and also to id’s classes and, more advanced, atrributes child tags.. and many other things.
    There’s nothing wrong with tables as a data form. Its the way people use them that most people take exception to.
    I’ve yet to find a layout that can’t be done in css and (x)html as well as it can with just tables and regular html, however sometimes people find it much much easier – and, importantly, using less workarounds – to use some kind of limited table set for layout.
    It is, I suppose the difference between “good practice” and practical working. If you know CSS (I do) then you’ll use it as much as posible, however if you aren’t as comfortable with its cross-browser intricacies.. then thats ok too.
    and.. I’m rambling…

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