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pageoneresults -> RE: Tables > CSS conversion: will they do it any time soon? (6/1/2003 13:42:07)
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I personally feel that CSS is still in its infancy stages. As Katherine said, it was just recently (past 2 years) that browsers are starting to offer more support for CSS.
I think tables will always be a part of our design, no matter what we do. At least for another 5 years. Tabular data is difficult to recreate using all CSS. In fact, the tests I' ve done required more CSS code than HTML code to recreate the tabular effect.
Don' t let all this CSS talk distract you from our main mission and that is to build websites that work in most up to date browsers. Attempting to support old browsers in today' s environment is a major step backwards. If you can build a site and have it fall apart gracefully in older browsers then you have done your job.
Until FP offers full support for CSS1 and CSS2, many here will have to rely on the features that FP provides. If you' ve crossed the WYSIWYG line and are now fiddling in the html, then you will be one step ahead as you can do things others won' t be able to. Being able to manually adjust code has been the biggest benefit of using FP and CSS. Without the manual adjustments, some things just don' t work the way you want them to.
One thing you can do to help trim out your code when using tables is to style them with CSS. Background colors, borders, padding, etc. can all be handled through your external CSS file.
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